Heavenly numbers : astronomy and authority in early imperial China

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Heavenly numbers : astronomy and authority in early imperial China

Title remainder

astronomy and authority in early imperial China

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge, CRCAO, Paris, Sometime scholar of University College, Oxford, and Research Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge)

Creator

• Cullen, Christopher

Author

• Cullen, Christopher

Subject

• Astronomy -- China -- History
• China
• 221 B.C.-960 A.D
• History
• China -- History -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D
• Astronomy

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 centers on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyze and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies"--

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Provided by publisher

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CDX

Dewey number

520.95109/01

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QB17

LC item number

.C853 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography