Nathan Sivin: Granting the Seasons | Buch

Cover: 9780387789552 | Granting the Seasons | Nathan Sivin | Buch | v | Englisch | 2008

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Beschreibung

Chinäs 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 made it possible.

For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor¿s ¿granting the seasons¿ to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the ¿Season-granting system¿ (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new.

Sivin, the West¿s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project¿s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.

Zusammenfassung

2011 Recipient of The Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy (see "Additional Information")

Introductory chapters provide a very accessible overview of the history of Chinese astronomy

Provides a detailed commentary along with a complete translation

Nathan Sivin is the West's leading scholar of Chinese science, and this book is the result of 30 years of research

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Astronomical 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.- 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Inhalt:	v 664 S.
ISBN-13:	9780387789552
ISBN-10:	0387789553
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	12190232
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sivin, Nathan
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Maße:	241 x 160 x 41 mm
Von/Mit:	Nathan Sivin
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.10.2008
Gewicht:	1,162 kg

Artikel-ID: 101734601