Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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 jyotisa. 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Clemency Montelle • Kim Plofker
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	308
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-97036-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	3-319-97036-4
Barcode:	9783319970363

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