Ping-Ying Chang

Gebundenes Buch

The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850

Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise

Beschreibung

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies.

Autor

Ping-Ying Chang is Adjunct Assistant Professor of mathematics at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, where she teaches courses on the history of mathematics and mathematical thinking in fictions and films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780367439675
• ISBN-10: 0367439670
• Artikelnr.: 64359917