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The Growth and Development of Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the Asia-Pacific Region

The proceedings of the ninth International Conference on Oriental Astronomy, held at Pune on 15-18 November 2016. Some fifty papers: siddhantas and karanas, observatories, calendrical systems, archaeoastronomy, the history of observation in India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia. For our own search

Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables: Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences

A collection on a craft that is not usually taught: how to edit and analyse numerical tables. Not to interpret but to analyse — to recover parameters from the numbers themselves, to tell a copyist's error from a variant reading, to identify an untitled table by its own differences. Six hundred and...