Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 16201850 Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies.

About the author

Ping-Ying Chang is Adjunct Assistant Professor of mathematics at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, where she teaches courses on the history of mathematics and mathematical thinking in fictions and films.

Summary

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Ping-Ying Chang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 07.10.2022
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780367439675
• ISBN: 978-0-367-43967-5
• Pages: 230
• Series: Needham Research Institute Series
• Subjects: China, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / China, History of Science, Astronomy, space & time, Institutions and learned societies: general, Astronomy, space and time, Institutions & learned societies: general, Qing dynasty history, imperial China science, celestial observation methods, Jesuit scientific exchange, Ming dynasty reforms, hereditary astronomers, Chinese scientific bureaucracy research