Introduction: Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th – 19th Centuries
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Brown, Tristan G
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June 2024
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HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Brown, Tristan G.. "Introduction: Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th – 19th Centuries." HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, vol. 18, no. 1, CIUHCT - Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (Portugal), 2024, pp. 1-5.
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Abstract
Astral science (the study of celestial objects) and cosmography (the study of the dynamic interactions among the Heavens, the Earth, and the human realm), loom large in the global history of science. With the northern hemisphere sharing more or less one night sky, the transregional circulation of astral-cosmographic knowledge was a central vehicle of scientific exchange through the early modern eras among the Western, Islamic, African, and Asian cultural spheres. Whether conveyed by Arab polymaths, South Asian merchants, or Jesuit missionaries, astro-cosmographic knowledge was readily translatable and transmutable.1 It was also politically consequential.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2024-0001
