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024	7		_a10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9 _2doi
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100	1		_aSivin, Nathan. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGranting the Seasons _h[electronic resource] : _bThe Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of its Many Dimensions and a Translation of its Records 授時暦叢考 / _cby Nathan Sivin.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSpringer New York, _c2009.
300			_aVI, 664p. 49 illus. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
505	0		_aAstronomical 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 -- Evaluation of the Season-Granting System, Part 2 -- Canon of the Season-Granting System, Part 1 -- Canon of the Season-Granting System, Part 2 -- Conclusion.
520			_aChina'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 observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor's "granting the seasons" to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the "Season-granting system" (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West's leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project's cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
650		0	_aMATHEMATICS.
650		0	_aMATHEMATICS_{DOLLAR}XHISTORY.
650		0	_aASTRONOMY.
650	1	4	_aMATHEMATICS.
650	2	4	_aHISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.
650	2	4	_aASTRONOMY.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9780387789552
830		0	_aSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9 _zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY
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