History of Indian Astronomy: The Siamese Manuscript

History of Indian Astronomy: The Siamese Manuscript
Author: Anil Narayanan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1483496325

The Siamese Manuscript holds the distinction of being the very first document relating to Indian Astronomy to reach Europe in a pristine form. Some fragments of Indian Astronomy had undoubtedly reached Europe in earlier times, but those tidbits were likely received in a highly altered form due to difficulties in translation, and the so-called cultural barrier. The Siamese Manuscript helped overcome this barrier by being a compendium of Indian astronomical knowledge in plain Siamese. The timing of the arrival of the manuscript in Europe was significant. After a couple hundred years the Renaissance was finally bearing fruit, and European intellectual prowess was at a peak. The deeper principles of Indian Astronomy, which had gone over the heads of the Greeks and the Arabs who first encountered them, could now be fully understood and appreciated for the first time by people outside India.

Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols)

Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1677
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004432280

The Handbook of Hinduism in Europe portrays and analyses Hindu traditions in every country in Europe. It presents the main Hindu communities, religious groups, forms and teachings present in the continent and shows that Hinduism have become a major religion in Europe.

Searching the Heavens and the Earth

Searching the Heavens and the Earth
Author: Agustin UDIAS
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401703493

Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.

Exploring the History of Southeast Asian Astronomy

Exploring the History of Southeast Asian Astronomy
Author: Wayne Orchiston
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2021-08-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030627772

This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network. The chapters were prepared by astronomers from Australia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand and Vietnam. They represent the latest understanding of cultural and scientific interchange in the region over time, from ethnoastronomy to archaeoastronomy and more. Gathering together researchers from various locales, this volume enabled new connections to be made in service of building a more holistic vision of astronomical history in Southeast Asia, which boasts a proud and deep tradition.

A History of Ayutthaya

A History of Ayutthaya
Author: Chris Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107190762

The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.

The Indianized States of Southeast Asia

The Indianized States of Southeast Asia
Author: George Coedès
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1975-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780824803681

Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.

A Companion to Byzantine Science

A Companion to Byzantine Science
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004414614

Science in Byzantium has rarely been systematically explored. A first of its kind, this collection of essays highlights the disciplines, achievements, and contexts of Byzantine science across the eleven centuries of the Byzantine empire. After an introduction on science in Byzantium and the 21st century, and a study of Christianization and the teaching of science in Byzantium, it offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the scientific disciplines cultivated in Byzantium, from the exact to the natural sciences, medicine, polemology, and the occult sciences. The volume showcases the diversity and vivacity of the varied scientific endeavours in the Byzantine world across its long history, and aims to bring the field into broader conversations within Byzantine studies, medieval studies, and history of science. Contributors are Fabio Acerbi, Anne-Laurence Caudano, Gonzalo Andreotti Cruz, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Herve Inglebert, Stavros Lazaris, Divna Manolova, Maria K. Papathanassiou, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Thomas Salmon, Ioannis Telelis, Anne Tihon, Alain Touwaide, Arnaud Zucker.