Peking University Micro Lecture: There is No Shadow in the World and No Shadow in the Sun: Mythological, Imaginative Astronomy and Its Significance
by Wang Bangwei
About This Novel
The ancestors of ancient China once believed that the area they lived in was at the center of the world. This could be confirmed in a sense by observing the shadow of the sun on the ground. But ancient myths also say that the place where "there is no shadow under the sun" is in the world. The same problem has not only happened in China, but also in India and Palestine. Is this imagination or myth? How could it be related to ancient astronomical observations? Does it have more religious or political and cultural implications? The speaker will raise these questions based on ancient documents and archaeological materials. He does not expect to get a firm conclusion, but hopes to provoke some thinking.
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Official(4)Scraped 6d ago
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
I don't quite understand the professor's view that the world is centered. The earth is round. Where is the center? There is a center of the earth.
The authorities are obsessed~
Collect first, then take a look!
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Official(4)Scraped 6d ago
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
I don't quite understand the professor's view that the world is centered. The earth is round. Where is the center? There is a center of the earth.
The authorities are obsessed~
Collect first, then take a look!
