1Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797) / was a female mathematician and an astronomer / who lived in the Qing dynasty. She also had / a talent for poetry.(王贞仪是清代女数学家和天文学家，同时也富有诗歌才华。)

2Wang grew up / in a family that valued education. As a child, / she learnt mathematics from her father, / astronomy from her grandfather / and poetry from her grandmother. When she was a teenager, / she spent a lot of time / studying and building her knowledge / in her grandfather's library.(重视教育的家庭让她从小广泛学习，少年时期又在祖父的藏书中不断积累知识。)

3Wang learnt more and more / about astronomy and mathematics, / even though the language in the science books / was very old-fashioned and difficult to understand. This experience made her realize something important: / scientific texts need to be written in a clear way / so that everyone can understand them.(艰深古旧的科学著作促使她认识到：科学文字应写得清楚，让人人都能理解。)

4With this in mind, / she rewrote the mathematician Mei Wending's famous book / about calculation. At age 24, / she created a simpler method of multiplication and division, / and wrote a book about it.(因此她改写梅文鼎的算学著作，并在24岁时创造更简便的乘除法并著书说明。)

5Wang also studied astronomy / on her own. She described lunar and solar eclipses / in her works. In old times, / people thought eclipses were a sign / that heaven was angry with them, / but Wang showed / that these events were completely natural. She explained it in a simple way / so that ordinary people could understand.

5She set up a model of a lunar eclipse / in a garden. It was made up of a round table / representing the Earth, / a lamp as the Sun, / and a round mirror as the Moon. Wang moved the objects around / to show what happens during a lunar eclipse: / when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow, / the Moon becomes darker. Her model was clear and simple to understand, / even for the youngest people / in the audience.(她还用通俗解释和月食模型说明天象的自然原理，使普通人甚至孩子也能明白。)

6In addition to her achievements in mathematics and astronomy, / Wang Zhenyi was an excellent poet, / and she wrote about unusually modern topics. Wang knew that women are no less intelligent than men, / as we can see in this poem:
It's made to believe,
Women are the same as Men;
Are you not convinced,
Daughters can also be heroic?(除数学和天文学外，她还以诗歌表达男女同样聪慧、女儿也能成为英雄的超前思想。)

7In 1994, / the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a crater on Venus / after Wang Zhenyi. Since she achieved so much / in her short time on Earth—she died at the age of 29—it is fitting / that she is remembered beyond it.(她虽29岁早逝，却成就卓著，后来金星上的一座环形山以她命名，使她的名字传向地球之外。)