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The Ming and Qing governments had made great efforts to absorb Western science. They aimed to use Western astronomy to improve the accuracy of their national astronomical institutions in almanac calculations as well as the solar and eclipse forecasts, which did not change the value goals and organizational form of Chinese official astronomy and failed to help achieve the true modernization of Chinese astronomy. Therefore, astronomy for the purpose of exploring the natural laws of celestial objects’ movement had never appeared in the official astronomical institutions of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China.
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Shi, Y. (2021). From the Western Techniques to the Imperial Techniques: Official Absorption of Western Astronomy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In: Jiang, X. (eds) Western Influences in the History of Science and Technology in Modern China. History of Science and Technology in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7850-2_4
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