Cullen, Christopher (Author)
This book is a history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'. It narrates the changes in ways of understanding the movements of the heavens and the heavenly bodies that took place during those four and a half centuries, and tells the stories of the institutions and individuals involved in those changes. It gives clear explanations of technical practice in observation, instrumentation, and calculation, and the steady accumulation of data over many years - but it centres on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyse and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies. It is these individuals, their observations, their calculations, and the words they left to us that provide the narrative thread that runs through this work. Throughout the book, the author gives clear translations of original material that allow the reader direct access to what the people in this book said about themselves and what they tried to do.
...MoreReview Daniel Patrick Morgan (2019) Review of "Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China". Historia Mathematica (pp. 96-99).
Review Joseph W. Dauben (2020) Review of "Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China". British Journal for the History of Mathematics (pp. 247-251).
Review Li Liang (2019) Review of "Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 97-98).
Review Will Wakeling (2019) Review of "Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 391-392).
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Chen, Meidong;
(2001)
The Argument between Right-Rotation Theory and Left-Rotation Theory of the Sun, the Moon, and the Five Planets in Ancient China
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Tang, Quan;
(2011)
A Further Discussion on the Algorithm of Expansion and Contraction Difference in Ancient Chinese Planetary Theory
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Book
(2022)
Maître de Huainan: Traité des figures célestes
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Qu, Anjing;
Tang, Quan;
(2008)
Research on the Parallax Theory in Ancient Greece, India, Arabia and China
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Wang, Yumin;
(2007)
New Research on an Ancient Map of the Jiangjun Cliff Rock Paintings---And the Meaning of Celestial Phenomena of the Junshan Rock Paintings in Yueyang City
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Wu, Jia-bi;
(2008)
Several Features of Cosmogony in Early China
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Asko Parpola;
(2013)
Beginnings of Indian Astronomy with Reference to a Parallel Development in China
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David Brown;
Jonathan Ben-Dov;
(2018)
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
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Tang, Quan;
Qu, Anjing;
(2008)
The Shicha Algorithm for Lunar Eclipses in Ancient China
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Xiaoyuan Jiang;
(2021)
Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History
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Raphals, Lisa;
(2002)
A “Chinese Eratosthenes” Reconsidered: Chinese and Greek Calculations and Categories
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Schäfer, Dagmar;
(2011)
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China
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Weixing Niu;
Xiaoyuan Jiang;
(2021)
The Outlook on the Universe of the Chinese in Ancient Period
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Yuan, Min;
Qu, An-jing;
(2008)
The Cosmic Model of Liangwu Emperor
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Magone, Rui;
(2008)
The Textual Tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe
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Chen, Yue;
(2009)
The Influence of Jie Xuan's Cosmology in China
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Article
Ōhashi, Yukio;
(2007)
On the Solar Motion in the Lixiang kaocheng
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Brindley, Erica Fox;
(2012)
Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China
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Thesis
Noa Hegesh;
(2018)
In Tune with the Cosmos: Tuning Theory, Cosmology, and Concepts of Sound in Early China
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Dirk L. Couprie;
(2018)
When the Earth Was Flat: Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology
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