| Author | Verbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688 |
| Place | Dilingae |
| Publisher | Joannis Caspari Bencard |
| Collection | Rouleau Archives |
| Edition | |
| Language | Latin |
| Type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Rare Book Cabinet |
| Call Number | QB36.V46 1687 |
| Description | 4 p., 126, [2] p. ; 19cm. |
| Note | Full title: Astronomia europaea svb imperatore tartaro sinico Cám Hý appellato ex umbra in lucem revocata à R.P. Ferdinando Verbiest. Library copy imperfect: lacks folding plate [?]. Title vignette: symbol of the Society of Jesus. Includes: Catalogus patrum Societatis Jesu qui post obitum S. Francisci Xaverii ab Anno 1581. usque ad Annum 1681. in Imperio Sinarum Jesu Christi fidem propugnarunt....e Sinico latine redditus a P. Philippo Couplet (pp. 100-126) Keywords: Solar observations, lunar observations, astronomical mathematics, calendar and calendrical technology; court astronomers, Beijing ; meteorology, optics, hydraulics, music> |
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| Author | Martzloff, Jean-Claude |
| Place | Berlin |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Type | Digital Book (PDF) |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | CE37.M37 2016 |
| Description | pdf [xxxv, 471 p. : charts ; 25 cm] |
| Note | Astronomy and calendars -- the other Chinese mathematics : 104 BC-AD 1644 / Jean-Claude Martzloff. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; FOREWORD; INITIAL FOREWORD;
Part I Chinese Astronomical Canons and Calendars; 1 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS; The State of the Art; Methodological Orientations; Computistics and Predictive Astronomy; The Paradox of the Chinese Calendar; The Calendar and its Calculations; The Difficulty of Access to Astronomical Knowledge; The Surface and Deep Structures; Two Notions of Time; The Double History of the Calendar; Historical Sources (Surface Structure); Historical sources (Deep Structure).
Numbers The Key Ideas of Astronomical Canons; Political and Cultural Factors: An Example; The Reforms of Astronomical Canons; The Bureau of Astronomy; The Names of Astronomical Canons; 2 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHINESE CALENDAR; Limitation and Scope; Fundamental Components; The Day; The Solar Year; The Twenty-Four Solar Breaths; The Seventy-Two Seasonal Indicators; The Five Phases; The Lunar Year; Lunar Months, Ordinary and Intercalary; The Structure of the Lunar Year; The Percentage of Full and Hollow Months; Local Patterns of Full and Hollow Months.
The Astronomical Months and the Lunisolar CouplingThe Beginning of the Lunar Year; Dynastic Eras and Concordance Tables; Cycles and Pseudo-Cycles; Definitions; The Denary Cycle; The Duodecimal Cycle; The Inverted Tree; The Sexagenary Cycle; Various Uses of the Sexagenary Cycle; The Nine Color Palaces; The Planetary Week; The Twenty-Eight Mansions; The Jianchu Pseudo-Cycle with Reduplications; The Nayin Cycle with Reduplications; Other Aspects; Festivals and Annual Observances; Irregular Years; Part II Calculations; 3 NUMBERS AND CALCULATION; Modes of Representation of Numbers; Various Zeroes.
The Zero-CircleThe History Zero Revisited; Numerical Constants; The Epoch; The Superior Epoch; The Support Year; The Emerging Year; Numbers of Years from the Epoch; Changes of Origin; Support Days; Binomial Representations; Fractional Representations; Mean and True Elements; Definitions; Historical Aspects; Notation and Terminology; Fundamental Elements; The Last Solar Breath of a Lunar Year; The Numbering of New Moons; The Lunisolar Shift; Introduction; The Epact; The intercalary remainder (Runyu); The Monthly Epact and the Intercalary Month; Consequences; Pathological Calendars.
4 MEAN ELEMENTSMean Elements in Practice; Metonic constants; Metonic Calculations; Justifications; Non-Metonic Canons; Calculation Variants; 5 TRUE ELEMENTS (618-1280); Introduction; True Solar Breaths; Some Peculiarities Leading to Simplifications; A Technical Term: The ruqi; A General Mode of Calculation of the ruqi; Another Mode of Calculation; The Calculation of the ruqi from Mean Solar Breaths; Another Technical Term: The ruli; The ruli; Tables and Interpolation Techniques; Solar Tables; Lunar Tables; The Solar Correction; Further Remarks On the Solar Correction; The Lunar Correction.
Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations. The following issues are addressed: (1) connections with non-Chinese cultural areas; (2) the possibility or impossibility of using mathematics to predict astronomical phenomena, a question that was constantly raised by the Chinese from antiquity through medieval times; (3) the modes of representation of numbers, and in particular the zero, found in the context of Chinese calendrical calculations; and (4) a detailed analysis of lunisolar calendrical calculations. Fully worked-out examples and comparisons between the results of calculations and the content of Chinese historical calendars from various periods are provided. Traditional Chinese calendrical and mathematical astronomy consists of permanently reformed mathematical procedures designed to predict, but not explain, phenomena pertaining to astronomy and related areas. Yet, despite appearances, models of the mathematical techniques hidden behind this voluminous corpus reveal that they depend on a limited number of clear-cut mathematical structures. Although only a small fraction of these techniques have been fully studied, what is known surprisingly broadens our knowledge of the history of Chinese mathematics. Sinologists interested in the history of Chinese science, and anyone interested in the history of Chinese mathematics, the Chinese calendar, and the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy from its origin (104 BC) to its European reform (AD 1644) will find this book very useful. The present English language edition is a fully revised and updated version of the French original. Even though this is a research monograph in sinology, no particular sinological background is required, although a basic understanding of 'concrete mathematics' is needed. From the reviews of the French edition: This is a demanding, rigorous book to read ... worth the concentrated study it requires. The rewards are not only in the details but in the general overview that ... [it] provides. Joseph Dauben, EASTM, 2011 ... first Work in a Western language to turn to for anyone interested in the details of Chinese calendrical computations. Benno Van Dalen, ISIS, 2011 Martzloff's careful scholarship and his overall look at the calendar beyond astronomical calculations ..., make this book a most valuable contributions to a field of increasing interest. U. D'Ambrosio, Mathematical Reviews, 2013.
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| ISBN | 9783662497180 ; 3662497182 |
| Author | Zeng Zhao 曾釗, 1821-1854Xu Zhixie 許之獬, fl. 1666Kong Guangmu 孔廣牧, d. 1863 |
| Place | Shanghai 上海 |
| Publisher | Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 初版 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book (Text in Collection) |
| Series | Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 1332 |
| Shelf | Admin. Office Gallery |
| Call Number | AC149.T76 1935 v. 1332 |
| Description | 11, 23, 19, 2 p. ; 17.5 cm. |
| Note | Chunqiu huobian 春秋或辯 / Xu Zhixie zuan 許之獬纂. Liji tiansuanshi 禮記天算釋 / Kong Guangmu zhuan 孔廣牧撰. Yu shuming Xi He zhangjie 虞書命羲和章解 / Zeng Zhao zhuan 曾釗撰. |
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| Author | Yabuuchi Kiyoshi 藪內清, 1906-2000Sivin, NathanNakayama Shigeru 中山茂, 1928-2014 |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Type | Digital Book (PDF) |
| Series | Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | QB17.S582 2009 |
| Description | pdf. [664 p. : ill. ; 25 cm] |
| Note | Granting the seasons : the Chinese astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records : 授時暦叢考 / Nathan Sivin ; with the research collaboration of the late Kiyosi Yabuuti 薮内清 and Shigeru Nakayama 中山茂. Introduction -- Astronomical reform and occupation politics -- Orientation -- The project : origins and process -- The astronomers -- The observatory and its instruments -- The records -- Evaluation of the Season-granting system -- Canon of the Season-granting system -- Appendix A: The instruments of Kuo Shou-ching -- Appendix B: The account of conduct of Kuo Shou-ching -- Appendix C: Technical terms. 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 working group, the observatory and the science that made it possible. Local access dig.pdf. [Sivin-Granting the Seasons.pdf] |
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| ISBN | 9780387789569 |
| LCCN | 2008930769 |
| Author | Wei Liaoweng 魏了翁, 1178-1237Zhang Caichen 張宷臣, 17th cent.Ouyang Binyuan 歐陽斌元, 1606-1649Wu Shouyi 吳守一Xing Yunlu 邢雲路, jinshi 1580 |
| Place | Shanghai 上海 |
| Publisher | Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 初版 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book (Text in Collection) |
| Series | Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 1310 |
| Shelf | Admin. Office Gallery |
| Call Number | AC149.T76 1935 v. 1310 |
| Description | [127] p. ; 17.5 cm. |
| Note | Jiaoshijing : fu Rishi yiguange ; Yueshi yiguange 交食經 : 附日食一貫歌 ; 月食一貫歌 / Zhang Caichen zhishou 張宷臣指授 ; Ouyang Binyuan zhufa 歐陽斌元著法. Chunqiu rishi zhiyi 春秋日食質疑 / Wu Shouyi zhuan 吳守一撰. Zhengshuo kao 正朔考 / Wei Liaoweng zhu 魏了翁著. Wushen lichun kaozheng 戊申立春考證 / Xing Yunlu ding 邢雲路訂. 民國25 [1936]. |
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| Author | Zhu Wenxin 朱文鑫, 1883-1938 |
| Place | Shanghai 上海 |
| Publisher | Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 初版 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Silver Room |
| Call Number | CE37.C8 1934 |
| Description | 2, 3, 302 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Note | Lifa tongzhi 曆法通志 / Zhu Wenxin zhu 朱文鑫著. 民國23 [1934]. |
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| Author | Aslaksen, Helmer |
| Place | Singapore |
| Publisher | National University of Singapore. Dept. of Mathematics |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Type | Document (pdf) |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Case X |
| Call Number | CE37.A753 2005 |
| Description | 42 p. : tables, ill. ; 28 cm. [pdf. doc. red binder] |
| Note | [by] Helmer Aslaksen, Department of Mathematics. National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543 "April 9, 2005" Bibliography: p. 39-42. Printed and bound from pdf document available online at: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/cal.pdf See also his webpage on The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar. Added keywords: Chinese New Year calculation; lunisolar calendars; solstices & equinoxes; 24 solar terms, 24 jieqi 節氣 ; Chinese months, leap months; sexagenary cycle, ganzhi jidu 干支制度, Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches; Jesuit astronomers. |
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| Author | Guo Tingyi 郭廷以, 1904-1975 |
| Place | Shanghai 上海 |
| Publisher | Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 初版 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Stacks |
| Call Number | DS759.15.T257 G878 1937 |
| Description | 2, 3, 212 p. : ill., tables ; 19 cm. |
| Note | Taiping Tianguo lifa kaoding 太平天國曆法考訂 / Guo Tingyi zhu 郭廷以著. Bibliography: p. 208-212. 鉛印本. 民國26 [1037]. |
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| Author | Luo Ergang 羅爾綱, 1901-1997 |
| Place | Beijing 北京 |
| Publisher | Shenghuo Dushu Xinzhi Sanlian shudian 生活讀書新知三聯書店 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 第1版, 北京第1次印刷 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book |
| Series | Taiping Tianguoshi lunwenji 太平天國史論文集 ; 第 4 集 |
| Shelf | Stacks |
| Call Number | DS759.15.T516 L873 1955 |
| Description | 207 p. : ill.,, tables, facsims. ; 21 cm. |
| Note | Tianlikao ji Tianli yu Yinyang liri duizhao biao 天曆考及天曆與陰陽曆日對照表 / ǂc Luo Ergang zhu 羅爾綱著. Includes bibliographical references. 鉛印本. |
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| Author | Mei Wending 梅文鼎, 1633-1721Mei Juecheng 梅瑴成, 1681-1763 |
| Place | Shanghai 上海 |
| Publisher | Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館 |
| Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
| Edition | 初版 |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Book |
| Series | Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 0020 |
| Shelf | Admin. Office Gallery |
| Call Number | AC149.T76 1935 v.20 |
| Description | 1, 3, 37 p. ; 17.5 cm. |
| Note | Wu'an lisuan shumu 勿菴歷算書目 / Mei Wending zhuan 梅文鼎撰 ; Mei Juecheng jiaozheng 梅瑴成校正. 叢書集成新編 edition (1935-1939). Text based on Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書 edition (1769-1823). Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄 (1982), v. 1, p. 134; v. 2, p. 650 左. |
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| Author | Huang Yi-Long 黃一農 |
| Place | Xinzhu Shi 新竹市 |
| Publisher | Guoli Qinghua daxue chuban 國立淸華大學出版 |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Type | Extract |
| Series | Qinghua xuebao 淸華學報 |
| Shelf | TBD |
| Call Number | QB17.H832 1991 |
| Description | p. 247-280; 26 cm. |
| Note | Reprint from: Qinghua xuebao 淸華學報， 第21卷（1991）第2期. Abstracts in Chinese and English. Includes bibliographical references. Title in English from abstract: Selection of auspicious dates and "Calendar Lawsuit" in the K’ang-hsi reign period. |
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