Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of Its Many Dimensions and a Translation of its Records: The Chinese ... History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

by NathanSivin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $157.65

  China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor to celebrate victory over China after forty years of war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible.