Philippe de La Hire in India. Comparing True Solar Longitude Computations in Latin and Sanskrit (2019)
Montelle, Clemency (Author)
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Volume: 69
Issue: 182-183
Pages: 182-198
Philippe de La Hire’s Tabulæ Astronomicæ circulated extensively in Europe, and found its way further afield as well. Within several decades of its publication, the text also reached India, brought by travelling Jesuits to the court of Jayasiṃha in Jaipur. Jayasiṃha, a regent noted for his generous patronage of science, commissioned translations of de La Hire’s astronomical tables into Sanskrit. Several versions of these translations still exist. One of these, the Phiraṅgicandracchedyopayogika (literally: Aid to Representations of the European Lunar Theory), appears to be the most faithful and thorough of these attempts. We examine one excerpt from this translated work concerning computing true solar longitude, and highlight some of the challenges the Sanskrit authors faced introducing this new astronomical system into their traditional scientific models and the ways in which they resolved them.
...MoreArticle Christophe Schmit (2019) Introduction. Entre astronomie et physique : l’activité scientifique de Philippe de La Hire à l’Observatoire de Paris. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 6-28).
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