Zhu Zaiyu, in Chinese 朱載堉, lived from 1536 to 19 May 1611 and was a Chinese scholar, mathematician and music theorist and a prince of the Ming dynasty. Born in Qinyang in Henan Province into an aristocratic family, a sixth-generation descendant of the Hongxi Emperor, he inherited the title Prince of Zheng in 1593 but quickly resigned it to a cousin, and was granted a new princely title in 1606, the year he delivered a set of ten musicological treatises to the court. In 1584 he innovatively described equal temperament through accurate mathematical calculation, and he returned to the subject in his Lü Lü Zheng Yi of 1595 or 1596 and his Suan Xue Xin Shuo of 1603. His work has been described as the crowning achievement of two millennia of acoustical experiment and research.
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Zhu Zaiyu (Chinese: 朱載堉; 1536-19 May 1611) was a Chinese scholar, mathematician and music theorist.
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