Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birǧandī. This book was released on 2002. Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides the first presentation of the bilingual textual material that illustrates the transmission of Islamic astronomy to scientists of the Indian Sanskritic tradition. It includes editions of the chapter of the "Tadhkira" in which the mid-thirteenth century Persian astronomer, Nas?r al-d?n al- s? discussed the new solutions that he devised to overcome certain technical problems in the lunar and planetary models of Ptolemaic astronomy and of the learned commentary composed by al-Birjand? in the early sixteenth century together with the Sanskrit translation of both made by Nayanasukha at Jaipur in 1729. An English translation of the Arabic texts and a commentary discussing their technical meanings and the deviations from them in the Sanskrit version together with a glossary of the Arabic and Sanskrit technical vocabulary conclude the volume.
Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit
Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by Takanori Kusuba. This book was released on 2002. Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit
Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by David Edwin Pingree. This book was released on 1978*. Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanskrit Astronomical Tables write by Clemency Montelle. This book was released on 2019-03-07. Sanskrit Astronomical Tables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Islamic Astronomy and Geography
Islamic Astronomy and Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Astronomy and Geography write by David A. King. This book was released on 2022-02-13. Islamic Astronomy and Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.
