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This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline tha

An annotated translation and analysis of the Haidao Suanjing, a Chinese mathematical classic composed by Liu Hui in A.D. 263. All ancient societies practiced th

China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory o

This book is a history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often refe