A Paine Minister of the firat Emperors of the Tsin dynasty was one of those in antiquity who meditated on the idea that the earth is round and revolves.
His name wns Chang Has, He was recognized by his contemporaries as a man of lofty ability, and was in conse. quence selected from the crowd and gradually raised to the highest positions in the Government. When be was a young man, Emperors of the San family still ruled at Nanking over the Wa kingdom. Of the Three King. doms which sprang into a abort life at the breaking up of the Han dynasty, the other two, Weiin the north and Shu in the west, were now absorbed in the Tein kingdom, which had its capital on the south side of the Yellow River at Lo-yang, a few miles west of the present Kui-feng Fa, The Emperor who lived at Lo-yang naturally enough coveted the rich possessions of the Emperor who lived at Nanking. It was by the energy of Chang Hua that this conquest was made. He succeeded in the control of
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