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Comparisons between Arab and Chinese navigational techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

G. R. Tibbetts
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In his recent translation for the Hakluyt Society of Ma Huan's Ying-yai sheng-lan, Mr. J. V. G. Mills has published illustrations of four Chinese stellar diagrams and made some comments on them. He has, however, stated that ‘having no astronomy or higher mathematics, he is not competent to express a considered opinion on astronomical difficulties, or to check the consistency of the data of the diagrams’. He hopes ‘that an astronomer will find time to examine these interesting diagrams’.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 1973 , pp. 97 - 108
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1973

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1 Ma Hitan: Ying-yai sheng-lan ‘The overall survey of the ocean's shores’ (Hakluyt Society Extra Series, 42), Cambridge, 1970Google Scholar, Appendix 6, from which figs. 1–4 of the present article are reproduced by kind permission of the Hakluyt Society and the Cambridge University Press. I have received several comments from Mr. Mills with regard to this paper and these are appended with references inserted in the text.