China Science Holy Land Series -- History of Purple Mountain Observatory

Author: Jiang Xiaoyuan / Wu Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Purple Mountain Observatory is a modern astronomical observatory built by Chinese astronomers. Although the history of Purple Mountain Observatory is not long, strictly speaking, only this line is the true beginning of "the modernization of Chinese astronomy" – the Xujiayi Observatory and Qingdao Observatory before it were actually astronomical observatories built by Europeans, merely with their locations chosen in the Far East. Therefore, this book devotes the main portion of its content to the line of Purple Mountain Observatory.