Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China

Challenging monolithic modern narratives about ''Chinese science'', Daniel Patrick Morgan examines the astral sciences in China c.221 BCE–750 CE as a study in the disunities of scientific cultures and the narratives by which ancients and moderns alike have fought to instil them with a sense of unity. The book focuses on four unifying ''legends'' recounted by contemporary subjects: the first two, r...