Beginnings of Indian Astronomy with Reference to a Parallel Development in China
Hypotheses of a Mesopotamian origin for the Vedic and Chinese star calendars are unfounded. The Yangshao culture burials discovered at Puyang in 1987 suggest that the beginnings of Chinese astronomy go back to the late fourth millennium BCE. The instructive similarities between the Chinese and India...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Alberta
2013-12-01
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| Series: | History of Science in South Asia |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/8 |