The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasāraṇī

Download or read book The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasāraṇī written by Anuj Misra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th-century Brahmatulyasāraṇī is a rich repository of information about Indian mathematical astronomy and its genres of scientific writing in Sanskrit. This painstaking critical edition, translation, and technical analysis of the work includes detailed technical background about its content and relation to the seminal 12th-century astronomical handbook Karaṇakutūhala. This book explores important contextual information about the role and study of numerical tables in pre-modern astronomy, as well as the many challenges arising from critically editing numerical data in the Indian astral sciences.