The Zhoubi Suanjing, also known by many other names, is an ancient Chinese astronomical and mathematical work. The Zhoubi is most famous for its presentation...

from China, the first being the Suan shu shu (202 BCE – 186 BCE) and Zhoubi Suanjing (compiled throughout the Han until the late 2nd century CE). It lays...

surviving texts dating from roughly the 1st century BC, the Chinese text Zhoubi Suanjing (周髀算经), (The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths...

measured to tell the time of day and year were described in the Chinese Zhoubi Suanjing, possibly dating as early as the early Zhou (11th century BC) but surviving...

example, the Zhoubi Suanjing dates around 1200–1000 BC, yet many scholars believed it was written between 300 and 250 BCE. The Zhoubi Suanjing contains an...

Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven (Zhoubi Suanjing), dated no earlier than the 1st century BCE (from perhaps multiple...

perceptible" solar parallax of 7′. A Chinese mathematical treatise, the Zhoubi Suanjing (c. 1st century BCE), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed...

astronomical and mathematical text Zhoubi Suanjing indicating a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Zhoubi Suanjing is one of the oldest Chinese texts on...

includes: Zhoubi Suanjing (Zhou Shadow Mathematical Classic) Jiuzhang Suanshu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art) Haidao Suanjing (The Sea Island...

arrived at a distance of 100000 li (approximately 200000 km). The Zhoubi Suanjing also discusses how to determine the distance of the Sun by measuring...