AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

By J. DALAO

CONTENTS EXCHANGE AND COMPARISON IN ASTRONOMY BETWEEN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES ROD ARITHMETIC CALCULATION AND ABACUSES: CALCULATION TOOLS IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MATH AN OVERVIEW OF OF?CIAL AND PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL BOOKS THROUGH CHINESE HISTORY MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND THEORIES KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICINE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA SELECTED WORKS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN ANCIENT CHINA SONG CI, THE XI YUAN JI LU, AND THE JUDICIAL EXAMINATION SYSTEM PHYSICS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIMENTS IN ANCIENT CHINA ASTRONOMY AND DIPLOMACY: OF?CIAL CONTACTS IN ASTRONOMY BETWEEN CHINA AND KOREA STACKING TECHNIQUES AND HIGHER-DEGREE INTERPOLATION: SUMMATION OF SERIES AND INTERPOLATION IN ANCIENT CHINA THE SPREAD OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MATHEMATICS IN THE SINOSPHERE AND ITS IN?UENCE ZHU ZAIYU AND THE EQUAL TEMPERAMENT EARLY EXCHANGES IN ASTRONOMY BETWEEN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES ORIGIN OF ASTRONOMY IN CHINA RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GAI TIAN MODEL IN ZHOU BI SUAN JING AND THE COSMIC MODEL OF INDIA AMAZING KNOWLEDGE OF TEMPERATE ZONES IN THE ZHOU BI SUAN JING WESTERN ASTRONOMY BROUGHT TO CHINA BY THE EASTWARD SPREADING OF BUDDHISM TRACES OF BABYLON’S ZIGZAG FUNCTION IN CHINA POPULARITY OF THE THEORY OF THE SEVEN CELESTIAL BODIES IN CHINA THE THREE INDIAN ASTRONOMERS IN TANG DYNASTY CHINA THE JIU ZHI LI: FROM INDIA TO ASTRONOMY IN ANCIENT GREECE EXCHANGES IN ASTRONOMY BETWEEN CHINA AND THE ARABIC WORLD BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE MONGOLIAN EMPIRE ARABIC ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOW THEY IN?UENCED CHINA CHINESE ASTRONOMERS’ ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA FOREIGN BOOKS IN THE HUI HUI SI TIAN TAI FULL-SCALE INVASION OF WESTERN ASTRONOMY FROM LATE MING DYNASTY TO EARLY QING DYNASTY THE JESUITS’ “SHORTCUT TO HEAVEN” AN OVERVIEW OF EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY INTRODUCED TO CHINA THROUGH THE CHONGZHEN CALENDAR DUPLICATES OF THE EUROPEAN ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS WANG XICHAN AND MEI WENDING AND THEIR CONNECTION TO EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY THE SO-CALLED “WESTERN SCIENCES ORIGINATED IN CHINA” THEORY HOW CHINA MISSED THE CHANCE OF PROSPERITY AND THE ROLE KANGXI PLAYED

ISBN978-93-7738-993-2
Copyright Year2027
Pages490
Price$265.99
LanguageEnglish
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