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In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity?

Antoine Gaubil, a French Jesuit operating a mission in Beijing, posited that it did, aligning himself with the official Chinese government chronology, and using the state’s astronomical records as his evidence. George Costard, meanwhile, a clergyman and academic working in the south of England, attempted to discredit that same astronomical history in order to disprove China’s antiquity. A new paper in Isis, “Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” articulates the political strategy animating each man’s position, and demonstrates how the study of Chinese astronomy was shaped by European political interests.