Huang Yi-nung asserts, "Our astronomers were first-rate observers, and they had an encyclopedic mastery of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities." Huang notes that astronomy is a comprehensive science that is intimately connected with our lives and, as such, is not separate from nature as a whole.
「古代天文學家都是第一流的觀測者，也都是全才，集自然、人文科學專業於一身，」黃一農說，天文攸關生活，是整體性的科學，因此天文與整體自然不分。