Learning With Spheres - The Goladhyaya in Nityanandas Sarvasiddhantaraja

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction, 1.1 Indian astronomy: a brief overview, 1.2 The Sarvasiddhāntarāja, ‘The King of all siddhāntas’, 1.3 The Golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, 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 Nityānanda’s geodetic method vis-à-vis al-Bīrūnī’s method to calculate the Earth’s radius, B The cosmography of the Purāṇas, C Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-à-vis the eight manuscripts of the golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (goladhyaya) from Nityananda’s Sarvasiddhantaraja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interested in the history of non-western astral sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Anuj Misra, Anuj (University of Copenhagen Misra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9781138583573
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58357-3
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Philosophy, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, India, History of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, HISTORY / Asia / South / General