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Book SynopsisPart 1: China.- Chapter 1. Modeling Heaven and Earth”: Application of the Constellation Yi and the Nine Palaces in the Planning of the Western Zhou Capital at Luoyi.- Chapter 2. A Statistical Approach to Numerical Sequences on Ancient Chinese Artifacts.- Chapter 3. On the Variety of Language in Formulating the same Procedure in “Litian” ?? Land Measurement Problems in Excavated Qin-Han Mathematical Manuscripts.- Chapter 4. A Radical Proposition on the Origins of the Received Mathematical Classic the Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi ??).- Chapter 5. What is “the Science of Du and Shu” ???? in the Chongzhen lishu ?????.- Part 2: Korea.- Chapter 6. Binomial Expansions in Joseon Mathematics.- Chapter 7. The Mathematics of a Prime Minister of Joseon, Choi Seog-jeong.- Chapter 8. Solar Activities and Climate Change during the Last Millennium as Evidenced in Korean Chronicles.- Part 3: Japan.- Chapter 9. Japanese Mathematics from the Seventh to Sixteenth Century.- Part 4: West and East From Asia.- Chapter 10. Sunrise and Sunset Times of the Chinese Chóngxiu-Dàmíng Calendar ?????.- Chapter 11. Three Texts Concerning Planetary Periods from Babylon.- Chapter 12. The research about the Antikythera Mechanism: old and new questions.- Chapter 13. Thabit ibn Qurra’s Handling of Indian Trigonometry.- Chapter 14. Estimating the Gregorian Arrival Date of the Maori to Aotearoa-New Zealand.
