A calendar should be based on astronomy rather than schools of mysticism, and so it does not matter whether it corresponds to divination and superstition. These prophecies may seem accurate for a time, but in the long term they cease to have any relevance, therefore your subject puts no trust in them.
—Zu Chongzhi (429 - 500)—
Zu Chongzhi


China


Astronomer; Mathematician;

429





Calendar; Superstition;






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