Examination and notes to the astronomical records in >SUISHU<.

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Jun 1996

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Publ. Shaanxi Astron. Obs., Vol. 19, p. 124 - 135

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History Of Astronomy

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Astronomical records are an important part in Chinese official historical books. Their main purpose was for astrology and they are an obstacle for historians who read those books. With modern astronomical methods, one can compute and examine most of those ancient records. By comparing the computed results with the original texts, one can examine the texts, find their mistakes, study their observation method and regulation, inspect astrological theory, take a deeper understanding to those important historical materials. As an example the author deals with the astronomcial records of Dynasties Liang and Chen for 60 years in >SUISHU<, the official history of Dynasty Sui. He also synthesized other historical sources in addition to the astronomical computation.

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