Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit

Al-Birjandi on Tadhkira Ii, Chapter 11 and Its Sanskrit Translation (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)

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Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit

Al-Birjandi on Tadhkira Ii, Chapter 11 and Its Sanskrit Translation (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)

This text provides a 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, Nasir al-din al-Tusi discussed the new solutions that he devised to overcome certin technical problems in the lunar and planetary models of Ptolemaic astronomy and of the learned commentary composed by al-Birjandi 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 meaning and the deviations from them in the Sanskrit version together with a glossary of the Arabic and Sanskrit technical vocabulary conclude the volume.

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Language
English
Pages
300

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-287) and indexes

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science -- v. 47
Genre
Early works to 1800

Classifications

Library of Congress
QB23 .B56 2002, QB23.B56 2002

Contributors

Translator
Takanori Kusuba
Author
Al-Birjandi
Editor
Takanori Kusuba
Editor
David Pingree
Translator
David Pingree

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
300 p. :
Number of pages
300

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17039477M
ISBN 10
9004124756
ISBN 13
9789004124752
LCCN
2001056453
OCLC/WorldCat
505000176
Goodreads
801523

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