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)

"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...

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Main Author: Cullen, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First Edition.
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