Wang Zhenyi was a great ____ who lived long ago. She was born in 1768 in the Chinese ____ of Anhui. At that time, girls were not allowed to go to school. But Wang was lucky. Members of her ____ family were ____. They wanted her to learn. Wang’s father, a doctor, taught her about medicine and ____. She learned about ____ from her grandfather. Her grandmother taught her poetry. The more she studied, the more she wanted to learn. This young woman realized that if she could learn, others could, too. She noticed that books used to teach science and math were ____. Wang believed more people would learn if those books were written more clearly. So, she wrote her own ____, using simple ____. Wang also offered new ideas about why things happened. For example, many ____ people thought that gods ruled the world. They believed that solar and lunar ____ ____ when those gods were angry. Wang’s studies ____ her there was a better explanation. She did an experiment to prove it. Using a lamp, a mirror, and a table, she showed how the moon could be ____ covered by Earth’s shadow. That experiment became famous throughout China. Wang often used ____ to help people to understand the world better. During her lifetime, many Chinese believed the Earth was ____. Wang knew it was round, like a ball. But if our planet was round, some said, wouldn’t people just fall off? Wang explained how the force of ____ kept people on Earth. Wang Zhenyi died in 1797. She was just 29 years old, but she ____ a lot in her short life. She wrote 12 ____. Her work in ____ and math is still important. And in 1994, scientists named a crater on the planet ____ after her. It was a fitting way to honor this noted scientist’s work.

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