Author : David W. Pankenier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006724
Drawing on a vast array of scholarship, this pioneering text illustrates how profoundly astronomical phenomena shaped ancient Chinese civilization.
Author : David William Pankenier
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Astrology, Chinese
ISBN : 9781461944935
Author : Xiaoyuan Jiang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811223475
Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese's needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, as well as its difference from the western modern astronomy of today, exploring on new issues in a bold but logical fashion, and offering arguments that challenge even the views of authority.This book stands as a translated version, by Chen Wenan, an associate professor of Ningbo University, of the original Chinese publication Tianxue Waishi by Jiang Xiaoyuan.
Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814708420
When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth. Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world. Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics.
Author : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107010756
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Astrology, Chinese
ISBN :
Author : Aihe Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2000-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521624206
This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the formative stages of Chinese culture and history, tracing the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China's early empires. It crosses the disciplines of history, social anthropology, archaeology, and philosophy to illustrate how cosmological systems, particularly the Five Elements, shaped political culture. By focusing on dynamic change in early cosmology, the book undermines the notion that Chinese cosmology was homogenous and unchanging. By arguing that cosmology was intrinsic to power relations, it also challenges prevailing theories of political and intellectual history.
Author : John North
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226594416
The definitive history of humanity's search to find its place within the universe. North charts the history of astronomy and cosmology from the Paleolithic period to the present day.
Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443895482
Astrology is the practice of relating the heavenly bodies to lives and events on earth, and the tradition that has thus been generated. Many cultures worldwide have practised it in some form. In some it is rudimentary, in others complex. Culture and scholarship have categorised it as both belief and science, as a form of magic, divination or religious practice – but in many ways it defies easy categorisation. The chapters in this volume make a significant contribution to our understanding of astrology across a range of periods of cultures. Based on papers presented at the annual conference of the Sophia Centre held in 2012, the contributions range from China and Japan, through India, the ancient Near East, the classical world and early modern Europe, to Madagascar and Mesoamerica. The different topics include ritual and religion, magic and science, calendars and time, and questions of textual transmission and methodology. Astrology in Time and Place is essential reading for all interested in the history of humanity’s relationship with the cosmos.
Author : Xiaochun Sun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004488758
A reconstruction of the Chinese sky of two thousand years ago, based on analysis of the first star catalogue in China and other sources. Presented in six well-sized star maps for 100 BC, it is especially important for the history of astronomy. The Han sky, with five times more constellations than Ptolemy knew, reflects diverse human activities. The way in which constellations were grouped discloses a systematic cosmology, uniting universe and the state. The work of the three Han schools is comparable to Ptolemy's Almagest. With three detailed Appendices on the constellations of the three schools, well illustrated to demonstrate the relation between sky and human society, this book is valuable not only for astronomy historians and sinologists, but in general for scholars interested in the ancient cultures of Asia.
