| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Conventions; 1 The World Below; 1.1 Intellectual Framework; 1.1.1 Genre; 1.1.2 Legend; 1.1.3 Terminology; 1.2 History of Events; 1.2.1 A History of Policy; 1.2.2 A History of Practice; 1.3 Cast of Characters; 1.3.1 Institutions; 1.3.2 Individuals; 1.3.3 Values; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Observing the Signs; 2.1 Instrument Repertoire; 2.1.1 Water Clock; 2.1.2 Gnomon; 2.1.3 Diagram; 2.1.4 Sphere; 2.2 The Sphere World; 2.2.1 The Philosophical Sphere; 2.2.2 The Material Sphere |
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2.2.3 The Applied Sphere2.3 The Ambiguities of 'Observation'; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Granting the Seasons; 3.1 Calendar Types; 3.1.1 Day Tables; 3.1.2 Lunation Tables; 3.1.3 Sexagenary Rounds; 3.2 The Ritual and Administrative Apparatus; 3.2.1 Calendar Distribution; 3.2.2 State Ritual; 3.3 Calendar Making; 3.3.1 Computer; 3.3.2 Copyist; 3.3.3 Theoretician; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Reverent Accordance with Prodigious Heaven; 4.1 Cause for Deliberation; 4.1.1 Turns of Fortune, 168-196 CE; 4.1.2 The Case for Reform, 223 CE; 4.1.3 The Tabling of Reform, 226 CE; 4.1.4 New Emperor, New Regrets, 227-239 CE |
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4.1.5 Collapse, 239-317 CE4.2 The Oral Argument; 4.2.1 Transcript; 4.2.2 What to Believe; 4.3 Keeping Score; 4.3.1 Numbers That Speak; 4.3.2 Masculinity, Missile Sports and Mathematical Precision; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 What the Ancients Had Yet to Learn; 5.1 The Analyst: Looking Forward and Looking Up; 5.2 The Annalist: Looking Back and Looking Down; 5.2.1 Instrument-Cosmos, 220-479 CE; 5.2.2 Li Numbers, 220-479 CE; 5.2.3 The Mirror of History; 5.3 The Ascetic: The Siddhis of Science and the Awakening of Man; 5.3.1 The Alchemist: Ge Hong (283-343 CE); 5.3.2 The Ācārya: Yixing (683-727 CE) |
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5.4 Conclusion 6 Conclusion; Appendix Co-ordinates; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Pre-1850 Texts and Epigraphic Sources, by Title; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
An innovative history of astronomy in China, 221 BCE-750 CE, stressing plurality, change and the unifying power of myth-making |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Astronomy -- China -- History
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Astronomy, Ancient -- China
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Astronomical instruments -- China -- History
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Astronomical instruments
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Astronomy
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Astronomy, Ancient
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108518352 |
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1108518354 |
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9781108524315 |
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1108524311 |
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9781316488270 |
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1316488276 |
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1108506437 |
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9781108506434 |
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1108513883 |
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9781108513883 |
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1108515371 |
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9781108515375 |
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1108516866 |
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9781108516860 |
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