Anuj Misra. The chapter on spheres in a seventeenth century text on mathematical astronomy
In 1628 Nityananda rendered Mulla Farid's Zij-i Shah Jahani into Sanskrit. This is a rare case: two computational traditions, Indian and Islamic, meeting not in paraphrase but in one text, where one can watch the one digest the other. Misra examines the chapter on spheres line by line: Sanskrit...
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