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Author : Peng Yoke Ho
Release : 1977
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy by : Peng Yoke Ho
Download or read book Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy written by Peng Yoke Ho. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bingyu He
Release : 1977
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Book Synopsis Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy by : Bingyu He
Download or read book Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy written by Bingyu He. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Cullen
Release : 2007-01-18
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China by : Christopher Cullen
Download or read book Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China written by Christopher Cullen. This book was released on 2007-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study and translation of the Zhou bi suan jing, a Chinese work on astronomy and mathematics that 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. This book will be fascinating reading for scholars in the history of science, Chinese history, and astronomy.
Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff
Release : 2016-09-01
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Astronomy and Calendars – The Other Chinese Mathematics by : Jean-Claude Martzloff
Download or read book Astronomy and Calendars – The Other Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Peng Yoke Ho
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 884/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar by : Peng Yoke Ho
Download or read book Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar written by Peng Yoke Ho. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America.Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho ?had long piloted the ship through difficult times.? This book tells the story and more.
