Michio yano (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The book primarily focuses on a work that was most probably composed by the Indian Tantric master Amoghavajra, but that has only survived in Chinese translations. The in-depth study of this work provides Professor Yano with an opportunity to situate it between Mesopotamian and Hellenistic influences on one hand, and further developments in China and Japan on the other.…

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.…

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.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorCharles Burnett, Ph.D. (Cantab.), Professor in the History of Arabic/Islamic Influence in Europe, at the Warburg Institute, University of London, specialises in the translations of Arabic texts into Latin in the.