In early 1669, the Jesuit missionary astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688, Nan Huairen 南懷仁 in Chinese) was ordered by the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722) to take part in a test of his abilities to make accurate astronomical predictions, principally those needed to construct a lunisolar calendar of...

Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis

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Christopher Cullen et al.

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In late December 1668 the Kangxi 康熙 emperor (r. 1662–1722) asked the Jesuit astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–1688) to give publicly verifiable proof that the western astronomical system introduced to China by the Jesuits was accurate. In response Verbiest proposed that he and his Chinese opponent...

Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis

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Christopher Cullen et al.

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How to misunderstand a diagram: The eccentric/equant model in a 17th century Jesuit Chinese text.

Colloques et conférences

Christopher Cullen (9 mars 2022)

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In February 1631 a set of solar tables by Giacomo Rho (1593-1638) and his colleagues were presented to the Chongzhen emperor of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644); these came to form part of the astronomical compendium known as the Chong zhen li shu 崇禎曆書 ’Texts on mathematical astronomy [compiled] in the...

Christmas 1668 and After: How Jesuit Astronomy Was Restored to Power in Beijing

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Christopher Cullen et al.

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This article offers new insights into a series of dramatic events that took place at theimperial Chinese court in December 1668, in which astronomy, politics, and religionall played major roles. Jesuit missionaries had served the Manchu rulers of the Qing 清dynasty as official astronomers since the d...

The two worlds of the Geneva sphere: heaven and earth in a 17th century Japanese model of the cosmos

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Christopher Cullen (2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

The early modern encounter between the sciences and technologies of Europe and East Asia that began with the 16 th century arrival of Jesuit missionaries in ʻthe Indiesʼ has been studied by many scholars. In Europe during this period, an interest in new developments in science and technology began t...

Hanli 19 November 2018

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Christopher Cullen (19 nov. 2018)

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This is an Excel spreadsheet workbook, made with Excel for Mac 2011, with additional VBA functions created by myself. It may function on other systems, but I can make no guarantee of this. The workbook is designed to automate the operation of an ancient Chinese astronomical system, the Han li 漢曆 'Ha...

14e Conférence internationale sur l'histoire des sciences en Asie orientale (Paris, 6-10 juillet 2015): Livre des résumés

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Catherine Jami et al.

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The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA) took place in Paris, 6-10 July 2015. It was organised under the auspices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on behalf of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, T...

14e Conférence internationale sur l'histoire des sciences en Asie orientale (Paris, 6-10 juillet 2015): Livre des résumés

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Catherine Jami et al.

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An attempt to discern patterns in the polymathy in the exact sciences in early imperial China through bibliometrics

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Daniel Patrick Morgan (3 nov. 2022)

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The astral sciences in ancient China were conceived as binary, tianwen (lit. ‘heavenly patterns’) and li (lit. ‘sequencing’), that does not map to ‘astronomy’ and ‘astrology’ or any other equivalent; while closely related and placed under the same bibliographic category, the study of celestial and t...

Needham’s intellectual heritage

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Monique Abud (30 juin 2020)

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La revue en ligne et en libre accès intégral Cultures of Science consacre un numéro double (vol. 3, n° 1-2, 2020) à l'héritage intellectuel de Joseph Needham. Les contributions sont en grande partie tirées des communications délivrées au workshop sur le même sujet, qui s'est tenu au Needham Research...

Needham’s intellectual heritage

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Monique Abud (30 juin 2020)

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La revue en ligne et en libre accès intégral Cultures of Science consacre un numéro double (vol. 3, n° 1-2, 2020) à l'héritage intellectuel de Joseph Needham. Contribution de Christopher Cullen, associé CECMC.

Christmas 1668 and After: How Jesuit Astronomy Was Restored to Power in Beijing

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Monique Abud (10 févr. 2020)

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Article de Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute, associé CCJ-CECMC) et Catherine Jami (CNRS/CCJ-CECMC) paru dans "Journal for the History of Astronomy" (vol. 51, n° 1, février 2020).

Review of Christopher Cullen, Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy & Authority in Early Imperial China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Daniel Patrick Morgan

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Review of Christopher Cullen, Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy & Authority in Early Imperial China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

A Radical Proposition on the Origins of the Received Mathematical Classic The Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi 周髀)

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Daniel Patrick Morgan (2 déc. 2018)

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In 656, The Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi 周髀) was canonised as one of The Ten Mathematical Classics (Suanjing shishu 算經十書) that would serve as the basis of contemporary curricula and testing and, later, the study of the history of mathematics in ancient China. More specifically, The Gnomon of Zhou was cano...

Christopher Cullen, nouveau membre associé

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Sica Acapo (7 nov. 2018)

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Christopher Cullen (Directeur émérite, Needham Research Institute) a rejoint le CCJ en qualité de membre associé. Vous pouvez consulter sa page de membre sur le site du CECMC.

Le spectacle de la science dans le Japon du XVIIe siècle : La ’Sphère de Genève'

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Monique Abud (26 mars 2018)

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Séance du séminaire Sciences et savoirs de l’Asie orientale dans la mondialisation (Catherine Jami, Frédéric Obringer), avec une intervention de Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge ; CRCAO, Paris) intitulée : « Le spectacle de la science dans le Japon du XVIIe siècle : La ’Sphè...

Review of Christopher Cullen, The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems. Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World. London; New York: Routledge, 2017, xi, 434 pp.

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Daniel Patrick Morgan (2017)

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Spreadsheets and First-millennium Chinese li Procedure Texts

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Daniel Patrick Morgan (22 juin 2015)

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In 2005, Christopher Cullen published a three-page note, ‘Translating ancient Chinese astronomical systems with EXCEL’ (JHA 36.3: 336-38), and uploaded partial spreadsheet translations of Han-era (206 BCE – 220 CE) procedure texts on the Needham Research Institute website (here). While there has bee...

Etoiles et saisons. Peut-on reconstituer l'observation du ciel dans la Chine ancienne ?

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Jacqueline Nivard (13 janv. 2014)

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Conférence de Christopher Cullen

Etoiles et saisons. Peut-on reconstituer l’observation du ciel dans la Chine ancienne ?

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Jacqueline Nivard (13 janv. 2014)

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Conférence de Christopher Cullen .

Directorship of Needham Research Institute, Cambridge

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Jacqueline Nivard (7 déc. 2012)

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The Trustees of the Needham Research Institute (www.nri.org.uk) invite applications from suitably qualified persons for the post of Director, in succession to Professor Christopher Cullen, to take up appointment on 1 October 2013 or at a date to be agreed thereafter. The Institute is an independent...

Vivienne Lo et Christopher Cullen (éd.), Medieval Chinese Medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, 2005

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Frédéric Obringer (2005)

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Obringer Frédéric. Vivienne Lo et Christopher Cullen (éd.), Medieval Chinese Medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, 2005. In: Études chinoises, n°24, 2005. pp. 348-354.

John S. Major, Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought. Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi (with an Appendix by Christopher Cullen), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1993

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Rémi Mathieu (1996)

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Mathieu Rémi. John S. Major, Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought. Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi (with an Appendix by Christopher Cullen), Albany, State University of New York Press, 1993. In: Études chinoises, vol. 15, n°1-2, Printemps-Automne 1996. pp. 203-208.