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HAN PORTENTS AND PROGNOSTICATIONS by Hans Bielenstein Building on the work of W. Eberhard " and H.H.Dubs , " I attempted to prove in 1950 that the memorializing of portents ( in the unfortunate sense ) in Han times was a form of ...
HAN PORTENTS AND PROGNOSTICATIONS by Hans Bielenstein Building on the work of W. Eberhard " and H.H.Dubs , " I attempted to prove in 1950 that the memorializing of portents ( in the unfortunate sense ) in Han times was a form of ...
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... portents through which to express their complaints . After an " unnatural " phenomenon had become a portent by having been memorialized , it was the duty of the Prefect Grand Astrologer to enter it into a central list . As the Treatise ...
... portents through which to express their complaints . After an " unnatural " phenomenon had become a portent by having been memorialized , it was the duty of the Prefect Grand Astrologer to enter it into a central list . As the Treatise ...
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Han history , and it is unimportant whether the average number of recorded portents per year of a particular reign is a fraction higher or lower . 39 ) When I drew my first graph in 1950 , I added up all different recorded portents for ...
Han history , and it is unimportant whether the average number of recorded portents per year of a particular reign is a fraction higher or lower . 39 ) When I drew my first graph in 1950 , I added up all different recorded portents for ...
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