Chinese astrology and astronomy an outside history
"Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese's needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and fun...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ
World Scientific
[2021]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Author's note for the new edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- What kind of people in ancient China needed tianxue?
- What kind of people were engaged in tianxue in ancient China?
- Government-run tianxue : tradition and exception
- Astronomical phenomena and tianxue literature (1)
- Astronomical phenomena and tianxue literature (2)
- Universe in the eye of ancient Chinese
- Sino-foreign exchanges in ancient tianxue (1)
- Sino-foreign exchanges in ancient tianxue (2)
- Western astronomy finds its way to the orient in modern times (1)
- Western astronomy finds its way to the orient in modern times (2)
- Collision between the east and the west during the Ming and Qing dynasties
- Legacies of Chinese tianxue
- Postscript
- Index