Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia : Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill,
2022.
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| Series: | Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ;
vol. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Influence of Assyriology on the Study of Chinese Astronomy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / John Steele
- 2. Greek Astral Sciences in China / Bill M. Mak
- 3. Eclipse Dragons, Seasonal Change, and the Salvation of Light: A Case of Overlapping Cosmologies in Manichaeism / Adrian C. Pirtea
- 4. Deciphering Aristotle with Chinese Medical Cosmology: Nanban Unkiron and the Reception of Jesuit Cosmology in Early Modern Japan / Byuji Hiraoka
- 5. Chinese-Muslims as Agents of Astral Knowledge in Late Imperial China / Dror Weil
- 6. Geometrizing Chinese Astronomy? The View from a Diagram in the Kashf al-haqa'iq by al-Nisaburi (d. ca. 1330) / Yoichi Isahaya
- 7. From Heaven to Earth: Circles and the Construction of the Imperial Order in Late Ming and Early Qing China / Catherine Jami
- 8. Buddhist Universe in Early Modern Japan: Cosmological Dispute and the Epistemology of Vision / D. Max Moerman
- 9. Buddhist Cosmology in Bhutanese Murals: A Visual Negotiation Between Abhidharma and Kalacakra Systems / Eric Huntington
- 10. Overlapping Heavens in the Wall Paintings of Mogao Cave 285 at Dunhuang: An Art-Historical Study of the Syncretistic Images on Its West Wall and Ceiling / Satomi Hiyama.