The Annual Difference: How a Four-Century Debate between Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Thinkers on a Problem of Classical Exegesis Shaped a Predictive Mathematical Construct
In China, the precession of the equinoxes was conceptualized as an “annual difference” (suicha 歲差) between the tropical and sidereal year. The idea was introduced in the fourth century, it saw universal acceptance from the eighth century on, and it was in the four centuries in between that it was tr...
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2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 1 |
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B Li Chunfeng 李淳風 (602–670) B Kong Yingda 孔穎達 (574–648) B precession of the equinoxes B Confucianism B Liu Zhuo 劉焯 (543–610) B history of astronomy |
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