Education
He studied astronomy with Tang Du, the I Ching under Yang He, and Daoism under Master Huang. While Sima Tan had begun the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), he died before it was finished.
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司馬談
Career
He held the position of Court Astrologer (太史令) between 140-110 British Columbia. The year of Sima Tan"s death is the year of the great imperial sacrifice fengshan zh:封禅 by Han Wudi, for which the emperor appointed the fangshi, leaving Sima behind and thus probably causing him much frustration. An essay by him has survived within the Records of the Grand Historian. This organization of the philosophers of the past into six schools was somewhat original.
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China