History of Oriental Astronomy Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 274
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee
J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
MEMBERS 1. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitd di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. p. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
History of Oriental Astronomy Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23 rd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, organised by the Commission 41 (History of Astronomy), held in Kyoto, August 25-26, 1997
Edited by
s. M. Razaullah Ansari President of IUHPS Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy Former President of IAU Commission for History of Astronomy Former Professor of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-90-481-6033-4 ISBN 978-94-015-9862-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9862-0
Printed on acid-free paper Cover picture Details from an Indian celestial globe made by Ghulam Hussain Jaunpuri in 1816 AD (Courtesy Prof. M. Mahdi Ansari, Aligarh)
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Dedicated to the Fond Memory of Dr. Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (1927-1982) Founder Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore First Indian President of the International Astronomical Union (1979-82)
Contents
Preface
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Scientific Organising Committee
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