ARTICLES

• Supplementary Proofs and Interpretations of Liu Yueyun's Ceyuan Haijing Tongshi
• LI Zhaohua
• Gougu Ceyuanshu (Method for finding the diameter of a circle in contact with nine right triangles) recorded in Ceyuan Ha...
• 2019, 38 (1): 1-25

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• The Composition of the Personnel in the Astronomical Organization during the Early Years of the Northern Song Dynasty
• WANG Jichen
• In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the official astronomical institutions faced the serious situation of what was ca...
• 2019, 38 (1): 26-39

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• Imitating the Heavens and the Urban Planning of Luoyang during the Eastern Han Period
• LIANG Xuan
• Luoyang, the capital city of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was constructed on the site of the former capitals of the Zhou and Qin dynas...
• 2019, 38 (1): 40-52

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• A New Research on the Astronomical Instrument Linglong
• ZHANG Nan
• Discussions on the function and structure of the Linglong instrument made by Guo Shoujing in the Yuan Dynasty have not been...
• 2019, 38 (1): 53-66

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• The Trilogy of A. Wylie's Puzzle: Yixing's Observation of Declination
• WENREN Jun
• Alexander Wylie (1815～1887), a British missionary and sinologist, published his essay The Magnetic Compass in China in 1859...
• 2019, 38 (1): 67-75

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• Verification of the Original English Textbooks of Xingxue Beizhi
• ZHU Jie
• Xingxue Beizhi is an important primary geometry textbook of the late Qing dynasty. It has generally been regarded in academ...
• 2019, 38 (1): 76-86

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• Faraday's Discovery of Electromagnetic Induction and the Process of the Transformation of His Ideas
• QIAN Changyan
• In the light of Faraday's Diaries, his manuscript of 'Experimental Researches in Electricity. Series I', his letters and ot...
• 2019, 38 (1): 87-104

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• Religion, Gender and Science: Quaker Writer Priscilla Wakefield and Her Botany
• JIANG Hong
• As a typical female popularizer of science for young people during the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, Priscilla Wakefield per...
• 2019, 38 (1): 105-115

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