Yusi jing - A treatise of 'Western' Astral Science in Chinese and its versified version Xitian yusi jing
Bill M. Mak. SCIAMVS 15, 2014, 105-169.
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Open access and read in full. Edits and translates a text preserved in a Ming anthology, and argues that the Yusi jing renders a Greco-Persian astral work transmitted through Central Asia, closer to the Carmen Astrologicum of Dorotheus than to Ptolemy. The conclusion cited here is at pp. 130-31.
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- Dorotheus of Sidon
- For the transmission chain out of Greek, which Mak sets out as part of a wider account of the same circulation. The eastward branch is told in full at eastward-transmission and is not repeated here.
- Eastward Transmission of Hellenistic Astral Material
- Read in full. For the transmission of Greek astral treatises through Syriac, Middle Persian and Arabic, and for the argument that the Yusi jing renders a Greco-Persian work closer to Dorotheus than to Ptolemy.