The ''Great Tang Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era'', also called the ''Kaiyuan Star Observations''Deng, Yinke. 005(2005). Chinese Ancient Inventions. (''Kaiyuan Zhanjing''),Needham, Volume 3, 109. is a

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encyclopedia compiled by

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and a team of scholars between 714 and 724 AD during the

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of the

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. The book is divided into 120 volumes and consists of about 600,000 words. The ''Kaiyuan Zhanjing'' incorporates many fragments of other works, including the star catalogues of

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and

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and a translated version of Indian ''

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'' calendar at chapter 104. It may have made use of the ''Yisizhan'', compiled by Li Chunfeng around 645. Aryabhata's sine table by the eponymous Indian astronomer, was also translated into the ''Kaiyuan Zhanjing''. The ''Kaiyuan Zhanjing'' ceased to be copied in the 10th century, but was received attention from the scholar

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in 1616 and was later included in the Siku Quanshu collections of the 18th century.

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References

* * {{cite book , author=Liu Shaojun , title=Studies of the Chinese Mystical Culture Series : Comment and Review on the Ancient Astrology , publisher=Beijing Normal University Press , pages=107–111 , location=Beijing , date=1992 , isbn=7-303-01790-9

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