Read more
This book contains an edited selection of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on the History of Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy (ICHAMA), organized by Tang Quan and Qu Anjing and held in Xi'an, 2-8 December 2018, commemorating the foundation. This collection, consisting of papers that have been refined and edited into scientific articles, provides an overview of how the history of science can be international, stepping beyond area studies, without being Euro-centric. Containing chapters written by East Asia scholars who do not publish widely in English, the volume opens an important window into their projects and the state of scholarship in their respective countries in relation to the history of mathematics and astronomy. As the contributions span a spectrum of senior and junior scholars, they are of great interest to an academic audience of researchers and post-graduate students in the history of science and the history of mathematics and astronomy in particular.
List of contents
Part 1: China.- Chapter 1. Modeling Heaven and Earth : Application of the Constellation Yi and the Nine Palaces in the Planning of the Western Zhou Capital at Luoyi.- Chapter 2. A Statistical Approach to Numerical Sequences on Ancient Chinese Artifacts.- Chapter 3. On the Variety of Language in Formulating the same Procedure in Litian Land Measurement Problems in Excavated Qin-Han Mathematical Manuscripts.- Chapter 4. A Radical Proposition on the Origins of the Received Mathematical Classic the Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi ).- Chapter 5. What is the Science of Du and Shu in the Chongzhen lishu ?.- Part 2: Korea.- Chapter 6. Binomial Expansions in Joseon Mathematics.- Chapter 7. The Mathematics of a Prime Minister of Joseon, Choi Seog-jeong.- Chapter 8. Solar Activities and Climate Change during the Last Millennium as Evidenced in Korean Chronicles.- Part 3: Japan.- Chapter 9. Japanese Mathematics from the Seventh to Sixteenth Century.- Part 4: West and East From Asia.- Chapter 10. Sunrise and Sunset Times of the Chinese Chóngxiu-Dàmíng Calendar .- Chapter 11. Three Texts Concerning Planetary Periods from Babylon.- Chapter 12. The research about the Antikythera Mechanism: old and new questions.- Chapter 13. Thabit ibn Qurra s Handling of Indian Trigonometry.- Chapter 14. Estimating the Gregorian Arrival Date of the Maori to Aotearoa-New Zealand.
