Sanskrit Astronomical Tables in the United States
Author : David Edwin Pingree
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : David Edwin Pingree
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : Clemency Montelle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319970372
This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus. Finally, the authors survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the discipline of Sanskrit jyotiṣa. There are also three appendices: one inventories all the identified individual works in the genre currently known to the authors; one provides reference information about the details of all the notational, calendric, astronomical, and other classification systems invoked in the study; and one serves as a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms.
Author : Mahārājā Mānasiṃha Pustaka Prakāśa
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780871692504
This catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive & penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities of Saw Jayasimha Maharaja from 1700 to 1743. Jayasimha collected Sanskrit manuscripts of traditional Indian astronomy, acquired Arabic & Persian manuscripts representative of the Muslim interpretation of Ptolemaic astronomy, built five observatories at which he employed both Hindu & Muslim observers, & produced a set of astronomical tables in Persian based on the Latin tables of Philippe de La Hire.
Author : Anuj Misra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004432221
A timely exploration of the numerical tables genre in pre-modern science, focusing on the previously unpublished 17th-century Indian astronomical table text Brahmatulyasāraṇī. Includes critical edition, English translation, and thorough technical/ historical commentary analysing the content and background of the work.
Author : David Edwin Pingree
Publisher : Madras : Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Astronomy, Hindu
ISBN :
Author : David Pingree
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : 9780871690814
Author : Virendra Nath Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788120812567
Sawai Jai Singh the statesman astronomer of 18th century India designed astronomical instruments of masonry and stone, built observatories prepared a Zij or a text for astronomical calculations and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe. His high precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles to the very limit of naked eye observing.
Author : Anuj Misra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0429015062
This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical analyses) of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Readers will learn how terrestrial and celestial phenomena were understood by early modern Sanskrit astronomers using spherical geometry. The technical discussions in this book, supported by the critically edited Sanskrit text and geometric diagrams, offer an opportunity for historians of the astral sciences to understand developments in astronomy in seventeenth-century Mughal India from a more nuanced perspective. These are supplemented through explorations of modernity, mathematics, and mythology and how they thrived within Sanskrit astronomical discourse at the courts of the Mughal emperors. This book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science, in particular those interested in the history of non-Western astral sciences. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars studying the general history of Sanskrit astronomy in the Indian subcontinent as well as those interested in the technical aspects of Sanskrit and Indo-Persian astronomy in Mughal India.
Author : East-West Center. Library
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 1968
Category : East and West
ISBN :
Author : Clemency Montelle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0801899109
Lunar and solar eclipses have always fascinated human beings. Digging deep into history, Clemency Montelle examines the ways in which theoretical understanding of eclipses originated and how ancient and medieval cultures shared, developed, and preserved their knowledge of these awe-inspiring events. Eclipses were the celestial phenomena most challenging to understand in the ancient world. Montelle draws on original research—much of it derived from reading primary source material written in Akkadian and Sanskrit, as well as ancient Greek, Latin, and Arabic—to explore how observers in Babylon, the Islamic Near East, Greece, and India developed new astronomical and mathematical techniques to predict and describe the features of eclipses. She identifies the profound scientific discoveries of these four cultures and discusses how the societies exchanged information about eclipses. In constructing this history, Montelle establishes a clear pattern of the transmission of scientific ideas from one culture to another in the ancient and medieval world. Chasing Shadows is an invitingly written and highly informative exploration of the early history of astronomy.