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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 308 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm. "This catalog is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, September 28, 2009 through February 15, 2010"--Title page verso.…

Zustand: New. Based on research in Sanskrit sources, this title chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 halftones. 40 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 820. . 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Zustand: New. pp. xi + 357 Illus., Map.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 8vo (24 cm), XI, [3], 357 pp. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket (ownership entry on the front free endpaper). "Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, this book chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the widely known facts about Indian mathematics, such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals, placing them within a broader textual and cultural framework. The book explores often-overlooked aspects of the subject, including the connections between Indian mathematics and astronomy and their interactions with Islamic scientific traditions. Plofker illustrates how Indian mathematics emerges not as a fragmented collection of discoveries but as a dynamic, diverse, and deeply integrated discipline closely tied to other Indian forms of learning." (from the blurb).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 384 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of algebra and the decimal place-value number system - as well as innovations in trigonometry, astronomy, and finance - medieval mathematics reenvisioned the science it inherited from antiquity and fundamentally transformed the world. The six volume set of the Cultural History of Mathematics explores the value and impact of mathematics in human culture from antiquity to the present. The themes covered in each volume are everyday numeracy; practice and profession; inventing mathematics; mathematics and worldviews; describing and understanding the world; mathematics and technological change; representing mathematics.Joseph W. Dauben is Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York, USA.Clemency Montelle is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Kim Plofker is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College, Schenectady, NY,USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Mathematics set.General Editors: David E. Rowe, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York, USA.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus. Finally, the authors survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the discipline of Sanskrit jyotisa. There are also three appendices: one inventories all the identified individual works in the genre currently known to the authors; one provides reference information about the details of all the notational, calendric, astronomical, and other classification systems invoked in the study; and one serves as a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.91 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 1. Auflage. VIII + 890 pages, first edition, orig. cloth gilt (see photo), label on spine, library stamp verso title, otherwise in very good condition. - - Contents: Preface. - - Mesopotamia: Erica Reiner: Constellation into Planet. - Hermann Hunger: Stars, Cities and Predictions. - John L. Britton: An Early Observation Text for Mars: HSM 1899.2.112 (= HSM 1490). - Francesca Rochberg: A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts. - Lis Brack-Bernsen & John M. Steele: Babylonian Mathemagics: Two Astronomical-Astrological Texts. - - Classical an Medieval Europe: Alexander Jones: An 'Almagest' Before Ptolemy's? - N.M. Swerdlow: Ptolemy's Harmonics and the 'Tones of the Universe" in the Canobic Inscription. - David Juste: Neither Observation nor Astronomical Tables: An Alternative Way of Computing the Planetary Longitudes in the Early Western Middle Ages. - Anne Tihon: Les Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: une édition critique. - Charles Burnett: Arabic and Latin Astrology Compared in the Twelth Century: Firmicus, Adelard of Bath and 'Doctor Elmirethi" ('Aristoteles Milesius'). - - India and Iran: Antonio Panaino: On the Dimensions of the Astral Bodies in Zoroastrian Literature: Between Tradition and Scientific Astronomy. - Dominik Wujastyk: Jambudvipa: Apples or Plums? - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: Setting Up the Water Clock for Telling the Time of Marriage. - Michio Yano: Planet Worship in Ancient India. - Christopher Z. Minkowski: Competing Cosmologies in Early Modern Indian Astronomy. - Takao Hayashi: Two Benares Manuscripts of Narayana Pandita's Bijaganitavatamsa. - Takanori Kusuba: Indian Rules for the Decomposition of Fractions. - R.C. Gupta: Area of a Bow-Figure in India. - Setsuro Ikeyama: A Survey of Rules for Computing the True Daily Motion of the Planets in India. - Kim Plofker: The Problem of the Sun's Corner Altitude and Convergence of Fixed-Point Iterations in Medieval Indian Astronomy. - S.M. Razaullah Ansari: Sanskrit Scientific Texts in Indo-Persian Sources, with Special Emphasis on Siddhantas and Karanas. - - Islam: J.L. Berggren & Jan P. Hogendijk: The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi. - David A. King: A Hellenistic Astrological Table Deemed Worthy of Being Penned in Gold Ink: the Arabic Tradition of Vettius Valens' Auxiliary Function for Finding the Lenght of Life. - Jacques Sesiano: Magic Squares for Daily Life. - Bernard R. Goldstein: A Prognostication Based on the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1166 (561 A.H.). - Godefroid de Callatay: Astrology and Prophecy: The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Legend of the Seven Sleepers. - F. Jamil Ragep: Ibn al-Haytham and Exodus: The Revival of Homocentric Modeling in Islam. - George Saliba: Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Court of Ulugh Beg. - Benno van Dalen: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn 'Umar: the Earliest Indian Zij and Its Relation to the 'Ala'i Zij. - - Current Bibliography of David Pingree. - Index of names of ancient and medieval authors.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAnuj Misra, Ph.D. (2016), University of Canterbury, is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on medieval and early-modern exchanges in Sanskrit astral sciences and has co.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 712 pages. 10.00x6.75x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. VIII + 890 pages, first edition, original cloth gilt, internally in excellent condition. - - Contents: Preface. - Mesopotamia: Erica Reiner: Constellation into Planet. - - Hermann Hunger: Stars, Cities and Predictions. - - John L. Britton: An Early Observation Text for Mars: HSM 1899.2.112 (= HSM 1490). - - Francesca Rochberg: A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts. - - Lis Brack-Bernsen & John M. Steele: Babylonian Mathemagics: Two Astronomical-Astrological Texts. - - Classical an Medieval Europe: Alexander Jones: An 'Almagest' Before Ptolemy's? - - N.M. Swerdlow: Ptolemy's Harmonics and the 'Tones of the Universe" in the Canobic Inscription. - - David Juste: Neither Observation nor Astronomical Tables: An Alternative Way of Computing the Planetary Longitudes in the Early Western Middle Ages. - - Anne Tihon: Les Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: une édition critique. - - Charles Burnett: Arabic and Latin Astrology Compared in the Twelth Century: Firmicus, Adelard of Bath and 'Doctor Elmirethi" ('Aristoteles Milesius'). - - India and Iran: Antonio Panaino: On the Dimensions of the Astral Bodies in Zoroastrian Literature: Between Tradition and Scientific Astronomy. - - Dominik Wujastyk: Jambudvipa: Apples or Plums? - - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: Setting Up the Water Clock for Telling the Time of Marriage. - - Michio Yano: Planet Worship in Ancient India. - - Christopher Z. Minkowski: Competing Cosmologies in Early Modern Indian Astronomy. - - Takao Hayashi: Two Benares Manuscripts of Narayana Pandita's Bijaganitavatamsa. - - Takanori Kusuba: Indian Rules for the Decomposition of Fractions. - - R.C. Gupta: Area of a Bow-Figure in India. - - Setsuro Ikeyama: A Survey of Rules for Computing the True Daily Motion of the Planets in India. - Kim Plofker: The Problem of the Sun's Corner Altitude and Convergence of Fixed-Point Iterations in Medieval Indian Astronomy. - - S.M. Razaullah Ansari: Sanskrit Scientific Texts in Indo-Persian Sources, with Special Emphasis on Siddhantas and Karanas. - - Islam: J.L. Berggren & Jan P. Hogendijk: The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi. - - David A. King: A Hellenistic Astrological Table Deemed Worthy of Being Penned in Gold Ink: the Arabic Tradition of Vettius Valens' Auxiliary Function for Finding the Lenght of Life. - - Jacques Sesiano: Magic Squares for Daily Life. - - Bernard R. Goldstein: A Prognostication Based on the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1166 (561 A.H.). - - Godefroid de Callatay: Astrology and Prophecy: The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Legend of the Seven Sleepers. - - F. Jamil Ragep: Ibn al-Haytham and Exodus: The Revival of Homocentric Modeling in Islam. - - George Saliba: Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Court of Ulugh Beg. - - Benno van Dalen: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn 'Umar: the Earliest Indian Zij and Its Relation to the 'Ala'i Zij. - - Current Bibliography of David Pingree. - - Index of names of ancient and medieval authors.…