Adapting and accepting the European astronomical system: A study of the mistakes in the calculation of eclipses using th Western methods in the late Ming and early Qing China

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1. Adapting and accepting the European astronomical system: A study of the mistakes in the calculation of eclipses using th Western methods in the late Ming and early Qing China

Mme Ji Chen (SYRTE PSL-Observatoire de Paris)

European astronomy was used to reform the calendar with the assistance of the Jesuits in the late Ming China and became the official astronomical system in the early Qing dynasty. However, the process of widespread recognition and application of the Western astronomical methods was not smooth but full of obstacles. Taking the eclipse prediction, one of the focal points of attention at that...