Translating Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems with Excel: How Not to Stew the Strawberries?

See for instance Stephenson F. R. , The historical supernovae (Oxford, 1977), and Yau K. K. C. Stephenson F. R. A catalogue of auroral observations from China, Korea and Japan (193 B.C. — A.D. 1770) (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, 1955).

Han shu 21B, 991–1011 in the standard punctuated edition (Zhonghua shuju, Beijing, 1962).

For a general and fairly elementary introduction to the problems of early Chinese mathematical astronomy, see Cullen C. , Astronomy and mathematics in ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing (Cambridge, 1996), 1–35. A shorter but more technical discussion centring on the San tong li will be found in Cullen C. , “The birthday of the Old Man of Jiang County and other puzzles: Work in progress on Liu Xin's Canon of the Ages”, Asia Major , xiv/2 (2004), 27–70.

See Xing Gang Sui Yun-Li , “A few supplementary decipherments of the fragmented almanacs collected in the Hanjian lipu”, China historical materials of science and technology , xxv (3) (2005), 250–61.