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606041
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b435260
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Calendrier chinois.English
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Martzloff, Jean-Claude
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Astronomy and calendars -- the other Chinese mathematics : : 104 BC-AD 1644 /\ Jean-Claude Martzloff
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1 online resource
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9783662497180
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: 3662497182
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9783662497173
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3662497174
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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List of Illustrations; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; FOREWORD; INITIAL FOREWORD; Part I Chinese Astronomical Canons and Calendars; 1 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS; The State of the Art; Methodological Orientations; Computistics and Predictive Astronomy; The Paradox of the Chinese Calendar; The Calendar and its Calculations; The Difficulty of Access to Astronomical Knowledge; The Surface and Deep Structures; Two Notions of Time; The Double History of the Calendar; Historical Sources (Surface Structure); Historical sources (Deep Structure)
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NumbersThe Key Ideas of Astronomical Canons; Political and Cultural Factors: An Example; The Reforms of Astronomical Canons; The Bureau of Astronomy; The Names of Astronomical Canons; 2 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHINESE CALENDAR; Limitation and Scope; Fundamental Components; The Day; The Solar Year; The Twenty-Four Solar Breaths; The Seventy-Two Seasonal Indicators; The Five Phases; The Lunar Year; Lunar Months, Ordinary and Intercalary; The Structure of the Lunar Year; The Percentage of Full and Hollow Months; Local Patterns of Full and Hollow Months
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The Astronomical Months and the Lunisolar CouplingThe Beginning of the Lunar Year; Dynastic Eras and Concordance Tables; Cycles and Pseudo-Cycles; Definitions; The Denary Cycle; The Duodecimal Cycle; The Inverted Tree; The Sexagenary Cycle; Various Uses of the Sexagenary Cycle; The Nine Color Palaces; The Planetary Week; The Twenty-Eight Mansions; The Jianchu Pseudo-Cycle with Reduplications; The Nayin Cycle with Reduplications; Other Aspects; Festivals and Annual Observances; Irregular Years; Part II Calculations; 3 NUMBERS AND CALCULATION; Modes of Representation of Numbers; Various Zeroes
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The Zero-CircleThe History Zero Revisited; Numerical Constants; The Epoch; The Superior Epoch; The Support Year; The Emerging Year; Numbers of Years from the Epoch; Changes of Origin; Support Days; Binomial Representations; Fractional Representations; Mean and True Elements; Definitions; Historical Aspects; Notation and Terminology; Fundamental Elements; The Last Solar Breath of a Lunar Year; The Numbering of New Moons; The Lunisolar Shift; Introduction; The Epact; The intercalary remainder (Runyu); The Monthly Epact and the Intercalary Month; Consequences; Pathological Calendars
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4 MEAN ELEMENTSMean Elements in Practice; Metonic constants; Metonic Calculations; Justifications; Non-Metonic Canons; Calculation Variants; 5 TRUE ELEMENTS (618-1280); Introduction; True Solar Breaths; Some Peculiarities Leading to Simplifications; A Technical Term: The ruqi; A General Mode of Calculation of the ruqi; Another Mode of Calculation; The Calculation of the ruqi from Mean Solar Breaths; Another Technical Term: The ruli; The ruli; Tables and Interpolation Techniques; Solar Tables; Lunar Tables; The Solar Correction; Further Remarks On the Solar Correction; The Lunar Correction
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Calendar, Chinese-- History.
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529/.32951
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CE37
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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