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Evaluation of the Season-Granting System,[The evaluation consists of eleven sections in two chapters (7 and 8 in this translation). Here is a list of the topics covered, with indications in modern terminology of what each section assesses:.Chapter 7.Chapter 8

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Evaluation of the Season-Granting System, Part 2,The test of an astronomical system’s exactitude is its treatment of eclipses. In this art of pacing the celestial motions, exactitude is hard to come by. There is always [uncertainty about] whether the [predicted] time of day is early or late, and whether the immersion is too shallow or too deep.

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Canon of the Season-Granting System, Part 1,[The Canon consists of seven sections, divided into two chapters. I list them here with the purpose of each stated in familiar terms:.Chapter 9.Chapter 10.In these two chapters I give only technical terms in translation only. For the Chinese originals, see the glossary in Appendix C]

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Conclusion,I will draw a few conclusions about the Season-granting system that the current state of knowledge permits, and end with a handful of thoughts on the place of the reform project in the history of science.

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Orientation,eneral survey, but deals concisely with topics pertinent to the Yuan reform. It begins with what can be said in general about the social, political, and institutional matrices of astronomy. It then reviews the basic tools, observational and mathematical, that astronomers used. Finally, it introduces

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The Observatory and its Instruments,ng 17m tall. It occupied, more or less, the site of today’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the north side of Jianguomennei Avenue (Jianguomennei dajie 建國(guó)門內(nèi)大街), within a long walk of the Forbidden Palace. The southeast corner of its walled compound fell close to the present-day Jianguomen subw

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The Records,, but the surviving versions are heavily revised and highly stylized. The relationship between what astronomical officials did and wrote, and what compilers of the Standard Histories (. 正史) eventually published, bears considerably on our understanding of astronomy. This chapter will therefore explor