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Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China
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A paper on the tension between the astral sciences tianwen 天文 'heavenly patterns' and li 曆 'sequencing' as concerns their respective treatments of planetary behaviour--a tension foregrounding others between epistemologies, genres, and authorial cultures.
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“Likewise, if we submit Jia Kui ' s tally to the same test, we notice that where his list has twenty-three solar eclipses from 25 to 89 CE, the ' Wuxing zhi ' has twenty-four, and the Gujin zhu , as cited in Liu Zhao ' s commentary, offers twelve records in variance with (and thus in excess of) that list over the same period. 36”
From No Comment: Remarks on the Source, Selection, Reliability, and Function of Non-Terrestrial Events Recorded in the Hou Hanshu“Benji” (Basic Annals) (2019) · cites this paper as [36]
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Morgan, D. P. (2019) · Monumenta Serica · doi:10.1080/02549948.2019.1603438 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Morgan, D. P.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Morgan, Daniel Patrick
- Venue
- The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2016-01-01
- Pages
- 416-450
- OpenAlex
- W2483215381
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 3.68
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- cc-by
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- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Keywords
- mercury, early imperial China, Chinese astronomy, celestial bodies, history of science, alchemy
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