The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...
In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...
High in the mountains of Argentina, beneath some of the clearest night skies on Earth, a massive Chinese-built radio telescope now sits unfinished and silent. Its giant white antenna points toward ...