Bøger af Nathan Sivin

By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. This highly readable book builds on over forty years of study and analysis of early liturgical and medical writings and a wide variety of other sources.

China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor to celebrate victory over China after forty years of war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible.