JOURNAL OF DIALECTICS OF NATURE
A Comprehensive, Academic Journal of the Philosophy, History, Sociology and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
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SHI Aijie
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<p>Department of History</p><p>University of Pittsburgh</p><p>AIS28@pitt.edu</p>
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Temporal Relations Between Celestial Phenomena and Their Portending Human Affairs in the Astronomical Chapter of the Jin Shu Abstract: Ancient Chinese astrology was mainly “judicial” portent astrology that focused on the relations between celestial phenomena and human affairs.The astronomical chapters of the official histories of the past dynasties contain records of a large amount of celestial phenomena and their portending human affairs.These records constituted the “empirical evidence” for astrology. In this article we make a case study based on the Astronomical Chapter of the History of the Jin. We investigate how the celestial phenomena were made associated with the human affair, or, to put in another way, how human affairs were rendered “portended events”. We focus on the temporal relations between the celestial phenomena and their portending human affairs. Our analysis of more than 500 hundreds reveals interesting characteristics in the temporal relations between the two. Various factors are considered to explain these characters, providing a deeper understanding of ancient Chinese astrology.Issue:Volume 39, lssue 1, January 2017Page: 72-77
JOURNAL OF DIALECTICS OF NATURE
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