000799459 000__ 03688cam\a2200445Mi\4500 000799459 001__ 799459 000799459 005__ 20210515134910.0 000799459 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000799459 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000799459 008__ 170819s2017\\\\enk\\\\\o\\\\\000\0\eng\d 000799459 020__ $$a9781108518352$$q(electronic book) 000799459 020__ $$a1108518354$$q(electronic book) 000799459 020__ $$a9781108524315$$q(electronic book) 000799459 020__ $$a1108524311$$q(electronic book) 000799459 035__ $$a(NhCcYBP)EBC4941654 000799459 040__ $$aNhCcYBP$$cNhCcYBP 000799459 050_4 $$aQB17$$b.M67 2017 000799459 08204 $$a520.931$$223 000799459 1001_ $$aMorgan, Daniel Patrick,$$eauthor. 000799459 24510 $$aAstral sciences in early Imperial China :$$bobservation, sagehood and the individual /$$cDaniel Patrick Morgan. 000799459 264_1 $$aCambridge :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2017. 000799459 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 pages) 000799459 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000799459 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000799459 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000799459 5050_ $$aCover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Conventions; 1 The World Below; 1.1 Intellectual Framework; 1.1.1 Genre; 1.1.2 Legend; 1.1.3 Terminology; 1.2 History of Events; 1.2.1 A History of Policy; 1.2.2 A History of Practice; 1.3 Cast of Characters; 1.3.1 Institutions; 1.3.2 Individuals; 1.3.3 Values; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Observing the Signs; 2.1 Instrument Repertoire; 2.1.1 Water Clock; 2.1.2 Gnomon; 2.1.3 Diagram; 2.1.4 Sphere; 2.2 The Sphere World; 2.2.1 The Philosophical Sphere; 2.2.2 The Material Sphere. 000799459 5058_ $$a2.2.3 The Applied Sphere2.3 The Ambiguities of 'Observation'; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Granting the Seasons; 3.1 Calendar Types; 3.1.1 Day Tables; 3.1.2 Lunation Tables; 3.1.3 Sexagenary Rounds; 3.2 The Ritual and Administrative Apparatus; 3.2.1 Calendar Distribution; 3.2.2 State Ritual; 3.3 Calendar Making; 3.3.1 Computer; 3.3.2 Copyist; 3.3.3 Theoretician; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Reverent Accordance with Prodigious Heaven; 4.1 Cause for Deliberation; 4.1.1 Turns of Fortune, 168-196 CE; 4.1.2 The Case for Reform, 223 CE; 4.1.3 The Tabling of Reform, 226 CE; 4.1.4 New Emperor, New Regrets, 227-239 CE. 000799459 5058_ $$a4.1.5 Collapse, 239-317 CE4.2 The Oral Argument; 4.2.1 Transcript; 4.2.2 What to Believe; 4.3 Keeping Score; 4.3.1 Numbers That Speak; 4.3.2 Masculinity, Missile Sports and Mathematical Precision; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 What the Ancients Had Yet to Learn; 5.1 The Analyst: Looking Forward and Looking Up; 5.2 The Annalist: Looking Back and Looking Down; 5.2.1 Instrument-Cosmos, 220-479 CE; 5.2.2 Li Numbers, 220-479 CE; 5.2.3 The Mirror of History; 5.3 The Ascetic: The Siddhis of Science and the Awakening of Man; 5.3.1 The Alchemist: Ge Hong (283-343 CE); 5.3.2 The Ācārya: Yixing (683-727 CE). 000799459 5058_ $$a5.4 Conclusion 6 Conclusion; Appendix Co-ordinates; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Pre-1850 Texts and Epigraphic Sources, by Title; Secondary Sources; Index. 000799459 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users 000799459 533__ $$aElectronic reproduction.$$bAnn Arbor, MI$$nAvailable via World Wide Web. 000799459 5880_ $$aPrint version record. 000799459 650_0 $$aAstronomy$$zChina$$xHistory. 000799459 650_0 $$aAstronomy, Ancient$$zChina. 000799459 650_0 $$aAstronomical instruments$$zChina$$xHistory. 000799459 7102_ $$aProQuest (Firm) 000799459 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMorgan, Daniel Patrick.$$tAstral Sciences in Early Imperial China : Observation, Sagehood and the Individual.$$dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2017$$z9781107139022 000799459 852__ $$bebk 000799459 85640 $$3GOBI DDA$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4941654$$zOnline Access 000799459 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:799459$$pGLOBAL_SET 000799459 980__ $$aEBOOK 000799459 980__ $$aBIB 000799459 982__ $$aEbook 000799459 983__ $$aOnline