Granting the Seasons The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of its Many Dimensions and a Translation of its Records B†Đ /

• Main Author: Sivin, Nathan. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematics_$xHistory.; Astronomy.; History of Mathematics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9

China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that mad...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Astonomical reform and occupation politics
• Orientation
• The Project: origins and process
• The Astronomers
• The Observatory and its instruments
• The Records
• Evaluation of the season-granting system, part 1
• Evaluation of the season-granting system, part 2
• Canon of the season-granting system, part 1
• Canon of the season-granting system, part 2
• Conclusion
• Appendix a: the instruments of kuo shou-ching
• Appendix b: the account of conduct of kuo shou-ching
• Appendix c: technical terms
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index-glossary.