Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China Observation, Sagehood and Society

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Conventions -- 1 The World Below -- 1.1 Intellectual Framework -- 1.1.1 Genre -- 1.1.2 Legend -- 1.1.3 Terminology -- 1.2 History of Events -- 1.2.1 A History of Policy -- 1.2.2 A History of Practice -- 1.3 Cast of Characters -- 1.3.1 Institutions -- 1.3.2 Individuals -- 1.3.3 Values -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 Observing the Signs -- 2.1 Instrument Repertoire -- 2.1.1 Water Clock -- 2.1.2 Gnomon -- 2.1.3 Diagram -- 2.1.4 Sphere -- 2.2 The Sphere World -- 2.2.1 The Philosophical Sphere -- 2.2.2 The Material Sphere -- 2.2.3 The Applied Sphere -- 2.3 The Ambiguities of 'Observation' -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Granting the Seasons -- 3.1 Calendar Types -- 3.1.1 Day Tables -- 3.1.2 Lunation Tables -- 3.1.3 Sexagenary Rounds -- 3.2 The Ritual and Administrative Apparatus -- 3.2.1 Calendar Distribution -- 3.2.2 State Ritual -- 3.3 Calendar Making -- 3.3.1 Computer -- 3.3.2 Copyist -- 3.3.3 Theoretician -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Reverent Accordance with Prodigious Heaven -- 4.1 Cause for Deliberation -- 4.1.1 Turns of Fortune, 168-196 CE -- 4.1.2 The Case for Reform, 223 CE -- 4.1.3 The Tabling of Reform, 226 CE -- 4.1.4 New Emperor, New Regrets, 227-239 CE -- 4.1.5 Collapse, 239-317 CE -- 4.2 The Oral Argument -- 4.2.1 Transcript -- 4.2.2 What to Believe -- 4.3 Keeping Score -- 4.3.1 Numbers That Speak -- 4.3.2 Masculinity, Missile Sports and Mathematical Precision -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 What the Ancients Had Yet to Learn -- 5.1 The Analyst: Looking Forward and Looking Up -- 5.2 The Annalist: Looking Back and Looking Down -- 5.2.1 Instrument-Cosmos, 220-479 CE -- 5.2.2 Li Numbers, 220-479 CE -- 5.2.3 The Mirror of History -- 5.3 The Ascetic: The Siddhis of Science and the Awakening of Man