Introduction -- PART I: In the ancient world -- 1. Above all with the Greek alphabet -- 2. In Chinese characters -- 3. In the Sanskrit of sacred Indian texts.-4. Not only in Arabic -- 5. Above all in the Latin alphabet -- Appendices.

PART II: In the world of the scientific revolution -- 6. Not only in Latin, but also in Dutch, Chinese, Italian and German -- 7. Beyond Latin, French, English, German, Italian and Flemish: the invention of symbolism -- 8. Between Latin, French, English and German: the language of transcendence -- 9. Between Latin and French -- 10. From French to German -- PART III: It is not even heard -- 11. In the language of the Venusians -- 12. Come on, Apophis -- Bibliography -- Index of names and works.

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Astronomy and mathematics in ancient China : the Zhou bi suan jing / Christopher Cullen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index.

The background of the Zhou bi -- The Zhou bi and its contents -- The origins of the work -- The later history of the Zhou bi -- Zhou bi suan jing: translation -- The preface of Zhao Shuang. The book of Shang Gao. The book of Chen Zi. The square and the circle. The seven heng. The shapes of heaven and earth; day and night. The xuan ji; polar and tropical conditions. The graduated circle and north polar distance. The shadow table. Lunar lag. Rising, setting and seasons. Calendrical cycles -- Appendix 1 Zhao Shuang and Pythagoras' theorem -- Appendix 2 Zhao Shuang and the height of the sun -- Appendix 3 Zhao Shuang and the diagram of the seven heng -- Appendix 4 The old shadow table.

This is a study and translation of the Zhou bi suan jing, a Chinese work on astronomy and mathematics which reached its final form around the first century AD. The author provides the first easily accessible introduction to the developing mathematical and observational practices of ancient Chinese astronomers and shows how the generation and validation of knowledge about the heavens in Han dynasty China related closely to developments in statecraft and politics. The book will be of equal interest to historians of science and those studying the history of Chinese culture.

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Chouren zhuan 疇人傳 (Biographies of astronomers, calendrists, and mathematicians)….”Ruan started this unusual enterprise as a voluntary contribution to the guoshi. The actual compilation, as with most of his works, was done by scholars working under his patronage and editorial direction. The first edition contained biographies and summaries of the works of 280 astronomers and mathematicians from ancient times to the 18th century, including 37 Europeans (in annex based on a work of Schall). The total biographies in all the editions and supplements comes to over 600 (of whom 52 were foreigners).

The editor’s main object was to provide a genealogy of Chinese computational astronomy as part of classical Confucian learning and as incorporating its offshoot, Western astronomy. The cosmology is Tychonic, not Copernican. One result of the collection was to further stimulate interest in ancient Chinese mathematics and the recovery of works long since neglected; another was to delay an objective reassessment of Chinese mathematics as measured against Greek, Arabic, and European approaches….(etc.) -- Cf. Wilkinson, E., Chinese history, a new manual. p.476.
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Heavenly numbers : astronomy and authority in early imperial China / Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge, CRCAO, Paris, Sometime scholar of University College, Oxford, and Research Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-413) and index.

Introduction -- The astronomical empire -- Li in everyday life: dates and calendars -- The emperor's grand inception, and the defeat of the grand clerk -- The triple concordance system and Liu Xin's 'Grand unified theory' -- The measures and forms of heavens -- Restoration and re-creation in the Eastern Han -- The age of debates -- Li Hong and the conquest of the moon -- Epilogue.

"A history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'. It narrates the changes in ways of understanding the movements of the heavens and the heavenly bodies that took place during those four and a half centuries, and tells the stories of the institutions and individuals involved in those changes. It gives clear explanations of technical practice in observation, instrumentation, and calculation, and the steady accumulation of data over many years - but it centers on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyze and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies"-- Provided by publisher

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