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Granting the Seasons
China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that mad...
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Springer
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1320307 |