Seminar series
Date
Fri, 27 Jul 2018
Time
16:30 -
17:15
Location
L6
Speaker
Anjing Qu
Organisation
Xi'an
In the 6th century, the phenomena of irregularity of the solar motion and parallax of the moon were found by Chinese astronomers. This made the calculation of solar eclipse much more complex than before. The strategy that Chinese calendar-makers dealt with was different from the geometrical model system like Greek astronomers taken as. What Chinese astronomers chose is a numerical algorithm system which was widely taken as a thinking mode to construct the theory of mathematical astronomy in old China.