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08/06/2015-12/06/2015

  SHAO Astrophysics Colloquia   

     

Why didn't Northern Song China produce a Kepler?   

     

Speaker: Sun XiaoChun (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences,CAS)

Time: Thursday, 3:00pm, June 11st

Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor   

     

Abstract: I will compare Chinese and western approaches to planetary motions in ancient times. In the beginning of the 17th century, Johanners Kepler(1571 - 1630), using observations made by Tycho Brahe(1546 - 1601), waged his war on Mars. He won his war with the discovery of the three laws of planetary motion, bringing about a revolutionary change in astronomy, harbingering celestial mechanics of Isaac newton.More than five centuries earlier, in the 11th century China, in the Northern Song dynasty, there was a polymath elite official Shen Kua () who, realizing the serious discrepancies in the prediction of planetary movements, proposed a project to tackle the problem. Shen Kua’s project, however, ended in abortion. He could not achieve anything remarkable on the computation of planetary motion. The eleven century Northern Song China, so to speak, did not produce a Kepler.In terms of accuracy of the calculation of planetary motion, China in the eleventh century had already reached the similar level of the West in the sixteenth century. The Chinese had also realized problems in the prediction of planetary motion, and set to work on it. This failure to make any recognizable progress as similar to that of Kepler is something worth to be studied. We will find out many factors, technical and social, that had inhibited the development of planetary astronomy in China, thus gain fuller insight into ancient Chinese astronomy.     

     

SHAO-USTC Lecture   

      

Title: 天文学中的统计学

Speaker: Shiyin Shen(SHAO)

TimeFriday, 1:30pm,June 12

Location: Room 1617   

     

Group meetings and additional talks   

     

Radio Astrophysics Group Seminar

Location: 1617; Contact: Guangrui Yao < gryao@shao.ac.cn>

Title: TBD

Speaker: Fei Li

Time: Tuesday, 11:30am, June 9   

     

Blackhole accretion and High-energy astrophysics Seminar

Location: 1608; Contact: Qixiang Yang <qxyang@shao.ac.cn>

http://202.127.29.4/fyuan/journalclub.html

Title: Turbulent heating in galaxy clusters brightest in X-rays

Speaker: Guobin Mou

Time: Tuesday, 2:00 pm, June 9   

     

Stellar Cluster and Galaxy Seminar group seminar

Location: 1617; Contact: Jian Fu<fujian@shao.ac.cn>

http://cluster.shao.ac.cn/wiki/index.php/Seminar_Plan

Title: The environment and ram pressure on satellite galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation

Speaker: Jian Fu

TimeWednesday, 10:30am, June 10   

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