【摘要】 回回天文历法在元代已开始使用,但未留下详细的文字资料.论述了明清时南京回回天文工作概况:明初由回回天文学家马沙亦黑、马合麻等在南京将回回历法译为汉文;明代成立了回回天文研究机构,在南京雨花台建回回观星台;清初梅文鼎在南京的朋友马德称是马合麻的后人,他存有《四省表影立成》等回回天文历法著作.更多还原

【Abstract】 The Hui-Hui astronomy and calendar which were intrduced into China from Arab world had been spread and studied in China in the Yuan dynasty(1279-1368),but little literature of themselves is kept now.This paper surveys the general situation of the Hui-Hui astronomy and calendar in China during the Ming(1368-1644) and Qing(1644-1911) dynasties.Astronomers Ma Sha-yi-hei and Ma Ha-ma translated the Hui-hui calendar into Chinese in the early Ming dynasty,meanwhile,research institutes of Hui-Hui astronomy and calendar were set up in and an observatory special for the study of Hui-hui astronomy was established at Yuhuatai in Nanjing.Ma De-cheng,an academic friend of famous astronomer Mei Wen-ding and lived in Nanjing,was a descendant of Ma Ha-ma and was familiar with some Hui-hui astronomical works,for instance,the Si-Sheng Biao-yin Li-cheng.更多还原