Modern Math for Ancient Odes
The Commentarial Layers of the Maoshi zhengyi on the Eclipse in “Shiyue zhi jiao”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20355693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Patrick Morgan (0000-0001-9115-3931, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 213-238 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monumenta Serica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9948 • E-ISSN: 2057-1690 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02549948.2025.2488663 |
| OpenAlex | W4410828189 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article discusses the commentators, commentarial layers, knowledge and argumentation in Kong Yingda’s (584–648) treatment of the ode “Shiyue zhi jiao” in the Maoshi zhengyi (643). Much had changed between Zheng Xuan (127–200) and Kong Yingda’s day as concerned the Han (202 BC – AD 220) world order, the feasibility of its “cosmological synthesis” in the sciences, and man’s understanding of eclipses, such as feature in this ode. Kong’s subcommentary to Zheng’s commentary thus provides a stratigraphic cross-section of these changes and an authoritative example of how historical change and scientific progress was to be reconciled with ancient scripture
Ancient history · Mathematics education · Ode · History · History and Theory of Mathematics · Mathematics · Applied Mathematics
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Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China
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Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China
Scripture, Canon and Commentary
Change in Shijing Exegesis
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State and Scholars in T'ang China
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |