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The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning - Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems (Hardcover)
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The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning - Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
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The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct
access to the foundational documents of the tradition of
calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire
between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The
paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and
practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to
come. It was in many ways radically different from better known
traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world. This
book includes full English translations of the first three systems
of mathematical astronomy adopted for use by imperial astronomical
officials, together with introductory material explaining the
origin and nature of each system, and a general introduction to the
work as a whole. The translations, which are accompanied by the
original Chinese text, give a consistent rendering of all technical
terms, and include detailed explanatory notes. The text in which
the second of the three systems is found also includes a unique
collection of documents compiled around 178 CE by two experts in
the field, one of whom was the author of the third system
translated in this book. Using material transcribed from government
archives of the two preceding centuries, these scholars carefully
document and review controversies and large-scale official debates
on astronomical matters up to their own time. Nothing equivalent in
detail and clarity has survived from any other ancient culture. The
availability of the totality of this material in English opens new
perspectives to all historians of pre-modern astronomy.
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