Learning with spheres : the goladhyaya in Nityananda's Sarvasiddhantaraja / Anuj Misra.
Pubblicazione:
Abingdon : Routledge, 2023.
Descrizione fisica:
381 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Scientific writings from the ancient and medieval world
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. List of tables. 1. Introduction 2. Manuscript sources and stemma 3. Critical edition 4. Edited Sanskrit text and ita Englisg translation 5. Critical notes and technical analyses. Appendix A: Nityananda's geodetic method vis-a-vis al-Biruni's method to calculate the Earth's radius. Appendix B: The cosmography of the Puranas. Appendix C: Numbering of verses in the critical edition vis-a-vis the eight manuscripts of the goladhyaya in Nityananda's Sarvasiddhantaraja. Bibliography. Index
