Overview: Showcases Asia’s important contributions to the international emergence of astrophysics.Includes an overview of historical astronomy in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, T.This book examines the ways in which attitudes toward astronomy in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan have changed with the times..The emergence of astrophysics was a worldwide phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and it gradually replaced the older-style positional astronomy, which focused
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