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On the Earliest Stage of Chinese Astronomy: 3 Hypotheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Y. Maeyama
Y. Maeyama*
Affiliation:
University of Frankfurt, D-60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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With the achievements obtained in the last few years, in particular most recently, I arrived at the following three hypotheses which seem to combine some major problems of ancient Chinese astronomy on a common historical basis.

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