Granting The Seasons
Download Granting The Seasons full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Granting The Seasons ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Granting the Seasons
Author | : Nathan Sivin |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780387789569 |
Download Granting the Seasons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
Nightmare Seasons
Author | : Charles L. Grant |
Publsiher | : Crossroad Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-03-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
Download Nightmare Seasons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A new season, and the Grim Reaper smiles in anticipation of the harvest to come. No one is safe, no one can be trusted. The lovestruck office boy, the beautiful little girl clutching a posy of violets, the faceless motorcycle gang all seem harmless enough, and yet. Nameless fears stir uneasily, terror bubbles to the surface. and the nightmare is unleashed. Enter the world of Oxrun Station, where evil lurks in unexpected corners, where nerves are stretched to breaking point, where every season brings a nightmare more blood-curdling than the last. Four novellas, each taking as its theme one of the seasons of the year, recount the weird happenings that take place in the fantasy town of Oxrun Station.
Seasonal Sociology
Author | : Tonya K. Davidson,Ondine Park |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781487594084 |
Download Seasonal Sociology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Seasonal Sociology offers an engrossing and lively introduction to sociology through the seasons, examining the sociality of consumption practices, leisure activities, work, religious traditions, schooling, celebrations and holidays.
A Song for the Season American Girl Tenney Grant Book 4
Author | : Kellen Hertz |
Publsiher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781338152098 |
Download A Song for the Season American Girl Tenney Grant Book 4 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Buckle your seatbelts--In this fourth book in the series, Tenney & Logan are taking their show on the road! Christmas is just around the corner, and Tenney can't wait to share their music with fans all over Tennessee. But being on the road is harder than she expected--she's missing out on her favorite holiday traditions at home. . . and why is Logan being such a scrooge? After a series of disappointments, the duo begins to crack under pressure. Can they save the tour--and their holiday spirit--in time for Christmas?
The seasons
Author | : James Thomson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Seasons |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590978515 |
Download The seasons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Dream Life
Author | : Donald Grant Mitchell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433074902002 |
Download Dream Life Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eating with the Seasons Anishinaabeg Great Lakes Region
Author | : Derek Nicholas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-03-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1714528847 |
Download Eating with the Seasons Anishinaabeg Great Lakes Region Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eating with the Seasons, Anishinaabeg, Great Lakes Region is a field guide to seasonal eating, and anishinaabemowin language and culture. With over 24 recipes and language lessons the author, Derek Nicholas, hopes to share the knowledge he has accumulated.
Granting the Seasons
Author | : Nathan Sivin |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2008-10-20 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0387789553 |
Download Granting the Seasons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.