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.
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The golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja
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ISBN
9780429015069
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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