Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of Its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of Its Records
Nathan Sivin. . Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York: Springer, 2009, 664 pp..
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The only full translation of a major Chinese astronomical treatise into a Western language, with a long orientation chapter on the calendar, the sexagenary count and the institutions. Cited here at page level for the definition of the qi (p. 79), the intercalation rule (p. 81), the marks of the day (p. 88), the almanac as an instrument of dynastic legitimacy (p. 140), the mean qi of the civil calendar against the corrected qi of the solar theory (p. 395) and the interval between the angular and temporal midpoints of a season (p. 411). Pages confirmed against the running heads of the text consulted.
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- The Astronomical Bureau and the Calendar Case
- For the Grand Scribe and the Mandate of Heaven, for the standing of the almanac in a claim to rule, for the change in the marks of the day at the Jesuit takeover, and for the Temporal Pattern treatise.
- The Chinese Lunisolar Calendar
- For the stem-and-branch count and the limits of its documented continuity, the definition of the qi and their halves, the classical intercalation rule, the almanac as an instrument of dynastic succession, and the mean qi of the civil calendar against the corrected qi of the solar theory.