Mathematics and Astronomy in the Ancient World - by Daniel Patrick Morgan & Tang Quan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book contains an edited selection of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on the History of Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy (ICHAMA), organized by Tang Quan and Qu Anjing and held in Xi'an, 2-8 December 2018, commemorating the foundation. This collection, consisting of papers that have been refined and edited into scientific articles, provides an overview of how the history of science can be international, stepping beyond area studies, without being Euro-centric. Containing chapters written by East Asia scholars who do not publish widely in English, the volume opens an important window into their projects and the state of scholarship in their respective countries in relation to the history of mathematics and astronomy. As the contributions span a spectrum of senior and junior scholars, they are of great interest to an academic audience of researchers and post-graduate students in the history of science and the history of mathematics and astronomy in particular.

From the Back Cover

This book contains an edited selection of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on the History of Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy (ICHAMA), organized by Tang Quan and Qu Anjing and held in Xi'an, 2-8 December 2018, commemorating the foundation. This collection, consisting of papers that have been refined and edited into scientific articles, provides an overview of how the history of science can be international, stepping beyond area studies, without being Euro-centric. Containing chapters written by East Asia scholars who do not publish widely in English, the volume opens an important window into their projects and the state of scholarship in their respective countries in relation to the history of mathematics and astronomy. As the contributions span a spectrum of senior and junior scholars, they are of great interest to an academic audience of researchers and post-graduate students in the history of science and the history of mathematics and astronomy in particular.

About the Author

Daniel Patrick MORGAN is a historian of astronomy in ancient China. Graduated from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago in 2013, he is currently a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique based at the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie oriental in Paris. Daniel is an associate editor at the journal East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, and an English-language editor for Études chinoises. His recent works include Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual (Cambridge UP, 2017) and Monographs in Tang official historiography perspectives from the technical treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu), edited with Damien Chaussende (Cham: Springer, 2019).

TANG Quan is also a history of astronomy in China. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of Northwest Normal University in 1996, he is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in History of Science at Northwest University, Xi'an" to "TANG Quan is also a historian of astronomy in ancient China. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of Northwest University in 2006, he is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in History of Sciences at Northwest University, Xi'an.