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 Containing chapters written by East Asia scholars who do not publish widely in English, the volume opens an important window into their projects and the state of scholarship in their respective countries in relation to the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.
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 Chóngxi-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. Thbit ibn
Qurras Handling of Indian Trigonometry.
Chapter
14. Estimating the
Gregorian Arrival Date of the Mori to Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Daniel Patrick MORGAN is a historian of astronomy in ancient China. Graduated from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago in 2013, he is currently a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique based at the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de lAsie oriental in Paris. Daniel is an associate editor at the journal East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, and an English-language editor for Études chinoises. His recent works include Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual (Cambridge UP, 2017) and Monographs in Tang official historiography perspectives from the technical treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu), edited with Damien Chaussende (Cham: Springer, 2019).
TANG Quan is also a history of astronomy in China. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of Northwest Normal University in 1996, he is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in History of Science at Northwest University, Xian to TANG Quan is also a historian of astronomy in ancient China. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of Northwest University in 2006, he is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in History of Sciences at Northwest University, Xian.
