Astronomy and calendars -- the other Chinese mathematics : 104 BC-AD 1644 / Jean-Claude Martzloff.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Updated and rewvised English version of Calendrier chinois.

Chinese hereditary mathematician families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620--1850 / Ping-Ying Chang.

Thesis, Ph.D. (History)--City University of New York, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
City University of New York. History, degree granting institution. Joseph W. Dauben, degree supervisor.

Link to ProQuest via BC Libraries

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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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Preface -- Abridged bibliography -- The legacy of Islam in China and in Europe toward the end of the XVth century -- Ricci’s scientific training -- Ricci and Chinese science -- The problem of Chinese astronomy -- The solar eclipse of December 15, 1610 -- Conclusion --Bibliography - Index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-98).
Based on physical copy from Gleeson Library.
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Moving stars changing scenes : gems of the ancient Chinese astronomy relics = Xing, yi, wu, huan : Zhongguo gudai tianwen wenwu jinghua / [author, Yip Chee-kuen ; editor, Lawrence W.K. Lee ; English translation, Lawrence W.K. Lee, Ann L.F. Hui].
Translation of: Xing, yi, wu, huan : Zhongguo gudai tianwen wenwu jinghua 星・移・物・換 : 中國古代天文文物精華.
"Produced by the Hong Kong Science Museum."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-175) and index.
***Graphic resource.
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The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850 : lineages, bureaucracy and technical expertise / Ping-Ying Chang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Organization of the Qing Astronomical Bureau -- From the Old Method to the New Method -- Kangxi Calendar Dispute -- Emperors and the He Brothers -- The Solar Eclipse of 1730 -- Knowledge Reproduction -- Maintaining a Familial Career -- The Decline of Missionary Influence and the Nineteenth-Century Reforms of the Astronomical Bureau.

"This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies. Utilising archival material, such as the résumés written for imperial audiences and personnel administration records, the book traces the rise and fall of more than thirty hereditary families serving at the Astronomical Bureau from the late Ming period to the end of the Qing dynasty. The book also presents an in-depth view into the organisation and function of the Bureau and succinctly charts the impacts of historical developments during the Ming and Qing periods, including the Regency of Prince Dorgon, the influence of the Jesuits, the relationship between the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors and the He family and the failure of the bureau to predict correctly the solar eclipse of 1730. Presenting a social history of the Qing Astronomical Bureau from the perspective of hereditary astronomer families, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Chinese Imperial history, the history of science and Asian history"-- Provided by publisher

The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850, 2023: CIP title page (Chinese Astronomical Bureau) galley (Qing Astronomical Bureau; the Astronomical Bureau (Qintianjian 欽天監 [Qin tian jian]); Unlike the Ming dynasty, which maintained a branch of the Astronomical Bureau in Nanjing,  the entire Qing Astronomical Bureau was in Beijing; The Bureau had three major workplaces; The first was the main office (yamen 衙門), which was located in the block  of central government institutions between and slightly to the east of the Gate of Heavenly  Peace (Tiananmen 天安門) and the Gate of the Great Qing (Da Qing men 大清門); The second major workplace was the observatory (guanxiangtai 觀象臺) located at the  southeast corner of the Beijing city wall; The third was the Drum Tower (Gulou 鼓樓) located at the north end of the central axis of  the Inner City; For most of the Qing era, the Astronomical Bureau was a middle-ranking but autonomous institution) publisher's note ("Chinese imperial [sic] Astronomical Bureau")—LC authority record.

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Zhoubi suanjing 周髀算經, see E. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, pp. 470, 670, 789. For English translation and study, see C. Cullen, Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China, 1996.