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The History of Astronomy in the Orient has been vigorously
researched in the last several decades. We may recall here the
publications of Joseph Needham's monumental volumes on Science and
Civilisation in China, one volume of which is devoted to Chinese
Astron- omy, S. Nakayama's A History of Japanese Astronomy (Tokyo,
1969), and the School of Edward Kennedy's writings on Islamic
Astronomy,1 which particularly culminated in the studies of the
Critique of Ptolemaic Astronomy by the Islamic astronomers belong-
ing to Na~lruddin rusI's School, established at Maragha Observatory
during the l3-l4th 2 centuries. In this backdrop of the emphasis on
astronomy in the Orient, the first IAU Colloquium (No.9 1 ) on
"History of Oriental Astronomy" was organised during the IAU
General Assem- bly, held in New Delhi, Nov. 13-16, 1985. The
Proceedings ofthe Colloquium were then 3 published. The second
effort by this Commission was to organise another International
Colloquium on Interaction of European and Asian Astronomy, held in
Vienna in Sept. 4 1990. Unfortunately its Proceedings could not be
published. Noteworthy is that the Far East or the East Asia did not
lag behind in this endeavour.
The History of Astronomy in the Orient has been vigorously
researched in the last several decades. We may recall here the
publications of Joseph Needham's monumental volumes on Science and
Civilisation in China, one volume of which is devoted to Chinese
Astron- omy, S. Nakayama's A History of Japanese Astronomy (Tokyo,
1969), and the School of Edward Kennedy's writings on Islamic
Astronomy,1 which particularly culminated in the studies of the
Critique of Ptolemaic Astronomy by the Islamic astronomers belong-
ing to Na~lruddin rusI's School, established at Maragha Observatory
during the l3-l4th 2 centuries. In this backdrop of the emphasis on
astronomy in the Orient, the first IAU Colloquium (No.9 1 ) on
"History of Oriental Astronomy" was organised during the IAU
General Assem- bly, held in New Delhi, Nov. 13-16, 1985. The
Proceedings ofthe Colloquium were then 3 published. The second
effort by this Commission was to organise another International
Colloquium on Interaction of European and Asian Astronomy, held in
Vienna in Sept. 4 1990. Unfortunately its Proceedings could not be
published. Noteworthy is that the Far East or the East Asia did not
lag behind in this endeavour.
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