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Author : George Rusby Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Astronomical instruments
ISBN : PRNC:32101017734664
Author : Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
Publisher : tredition
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783748227830
The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration. This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible. In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations. Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047406754
This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe, which is one reason why the entire corpus has remained unknown until the present. A second volume, also to be published by Brill, deals with astronomical instruments for timekeeping and other computing devices.
Author : David Pingree
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : 0871690810
Author : Kenneth Hudson,Ann Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349014880
Author : Fuat Sezgin,Māzin ʻAmāwī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Astronomical instruments
ISBN : UCSD:31822035287986
Author : Sriramula Rajeswara Sarma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015081854872
The fifteen papers collected in this volume are related to the authors investigations into the history of astronomical instruments in India. The history of astronomical instrumentation in India is dominated by two mutually contradictory - yut complimentary - currents: on the one hand the resilience of certain archaic instruments that held sway for long even after they had become obsolete; on the other, Indian astronomers receptivity to exotic instruments from other cultures. Hence the title of the volume: The Archaic and the Exotic.
Author : Kenneth Hudson,Ann Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349070145
Author : Time Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : UOM:39015014452679
Author : Henri Michel
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Scientific apparatus and instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015005155257
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015014243417
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003682098
Author : Robert Theodore Gunther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Astrolabes
ISBN : UVA:X001628423
Author : Virendra Nath Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 8120812565
Sawai Jai Singh the statesman astronomer of 18th century India designed astronomical instruments of masonry and stone, built observatories prepared a Zij or a text for astronomical calculations and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe. His high precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles to the very limit of naked eye observing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00070970G