Learning With Spheres

Auteur

Anuj Misra is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on medieval and early modern exchanges in Sanskrit astral sciences and includes articles and book chapters on the influence of Islamicate thought in the Sanskrit astronomyof Mughal India.

Texte du rabat

This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (gol dhy ya) from Nity nanda's Sarvasiddh ntar ja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interested in the history of non-western astral sciences.

Contenu

1. Introduction, 1.1 Indian astronomy: a brief overview, 1.2 The Sarvasiddh ntar ja, 'The King of all siddh ntas', 1.3 The Gol dhy ya in Nity nanda's Sarvasiddh ntar ja, 2. Manuscript Sources and Stemma, 2.1 Catalogues, holding institutions, and manuscript sigla, 2.2 Metadata, structure, and content of the manuscripts, 2.3 Stemma of the manuscript witnesses, 2.4 Editorial Notes, 3 Critical Edition, 4 Edited Sanskrit text and its English translation , 5 Critical Notes and Technical Analyses, A Nity nanda's geodetic method vis-à-vis al-B r n 's method to calculate the Earth's radius, B The cosmography of the Pur as, C Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-à-vis the eight manuscripts of the gol dhy ya in Nity nanda's Sarvasiddh ntar ja.