Overlapping cosmologies in Asia : : transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches / / edited by Bill M. Mak, Eric Huntington.

"The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in cult...

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Superior document:Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; Volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (315 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington
  • The influence of Assyriology on the study of Chinese astronomy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / John Steele
  • Greek astral sciences in China / Bill M. Mak
  • Eclipse dragons, seasonal change, and the salvation of light : a case of overlapping cosmologies in Manichaeism / Adrian C. Pirtea
  • Deciphering Aristotle with Chinese medical cosmology : Nanban Unkiron and the reception of Jesuit cosmology in early modern Japan / Hiraoka Ryuji
  • Chinese-Muslims as agents of astral knowledge in late imperial China / Dror Weil
  • Geometrizing Chinese astronomy? The view from a diagram in the Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq by al-Nīsābūrī (d. ca. 1330) / Yoichi Isahaya
  • From heaven to earth : circles and the construction of the imperial order in late Ming and early Qing China / Catherine Jami
  • The Buddhist universe in early modern Japan : cosmological dispute and the epistemology of vision / D. Max Moerman
  • Buddhist cosmology in Bhutanese murals : a visual negotiation between Abhidharma and Kālacakra systems / Eric Huntington
  • 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.