Granting the seasons : the Chinese Astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records

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...

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Autor principal: Sivin, Nathan, 1931-
Altres autors: Yabuuchi, Kiyoshi, 1906-2000 (Col·laborador), Nakayama, Shigeru, 1928-2014 (Col·laborador)
Format: Livre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: New York, NY : Springer New York [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
Edició:1st ed. 2009.
Col·lecció:Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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Nota: L'impression du document génère 664 p.
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Edition sous un autre format:• Granting the seasons, the Chinese Astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records, Nathan Sivi, New York, Springer, 2009, 1 vol. (664 p.), Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 978-0-387-78955-2
• Granting the Seasons, Texte imprimé, 9780387570556
• Granting the seasons, the Chinese Astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records, Nathan Sivi, New York, Springer, 2009, 1 vol. (664 p.), Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 978-0-387-78955-2

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