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

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  • Formatas: Hardback, weight: 1719 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-May-2022
  • Leidėjas: Brepols N.V.
  • ISBN-10: 2503596061
  • ISBN-13: 9782503596068
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  • Formatas: Hardback, weight: 1719 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-May-2022
  • Leidėjas: Brepols N.V.
  • ISBN-10: 2503596061
  • ISBN-13: 9782503596068
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Astronomical tables are a significant yet understudied part of the scientific historical corpus. They circulated among many cultures, and were adopted and transformed by astronomical practitioners for a variety of purposes. The numerical data conveyed in these tables provides rich evidence for pre-modern scientific practices. In the last fifty years, new approaches to the analysis and critical editing of astronomical tables have flourished due to advances in computing power and associated modern mathematical tools. In more recent times, the rapid growth of digital humanities and modern data analysis promises exciting further developments in this area. The present collection of studies on astronomical tables captures this momentum. It is a result of long-term collaborative work on building a database of astronomical tables and other objects found in manuscripts, released under the name DISHAS (Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences). The fourteen contributions in this volume provide a broad coverage of astronomical traditions throughout Eurasia and North Africa, which, with very few exceptions, find their roots in the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy. The contributions include critical editions of previously unexamined astronomical tables along with insightful mathematical analyses, as well as reflective methodological surveys that open up new perspectives for research on these fundamental sources for the history of mathematics and astronomy.
List of Colour Plates
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(18)
Matthieu Husson
Clemency Montelle
Benno van Dalen
Part 1 Classical Approaches to Table Cracking
Tools of the Table Crackers: Using Quantitative Methods to Analyze Historical Numerical Tables
19(34)
Glen Van Brummelen
Matthieu Husson
Clemency Montelle
The Almanac of Jacob ben Makhir
53(26)
Jose Chabas
Bernard R. Goldstein
Copying and Computing Tables in Late Medieval Monasteries
79(28)
Seb Falk
Determining the Sine Tables Underlying Early European Tangent Tables
107(38)
Kailyn Pritchard
Part 2 Editing and Analysing Astronomical Tables
Editing Sanskrit Astronomical Tables: The Candrarki of Dinakara (1578 CE)
145(42)
Clemency Montelle
Recomputing Sanskrit Astronomical Tables: The Amrtalaharl of Nitya-nanda (c. 1649/50 CE)
187(66)
Anuj Misra
Part 3 Computational Practices and Table Cracking
Tables of Sunrise and Sunset in Yuan and Ming China (1271--1644) and their Adoption in Korea
253(34)
Li Liang
The Tables of Planetary Latitudes in Jamshid al-Kashi's Khaqani Zij
287(44)
Glen Van Brummelen
Equation Tables in the Drgganita of Paramesvara
331(32)
Sho Hirose
Cracking the Tabulae permanentes of John of Murs and Firmin of Beauval with Exploratory Data Analysis
363(62)
Richard L. Kremer
Part 4 Pushing Approaches to Table Analysis Further
Computing with Manuscripts: Time between Mean and True Syzygies in John of Ligneres' Tabule magne
425(44)
Matthieu Husson
Reverse Engineering Applied to Ephemerides: Analysis and Edition of the Arabic Ephemeris of 1326/27 CE (MS Cairo, Dar al-Kutub, miqat 817)
469(42)
Johannes Thomann
The Geographical Table in the Shamil Zij: Tackling a Thirteenth-Century Arabic Source with the Aid of a Computer Database
511(56)
Benno van Dalcn
Indexes 567(2)
Historical Persons 569(5)
Works 574(5)
Manuscripts 579(4)
Parameters 583(5)
Places 588(3)
Modern Persons 591(2)
Contributors 593(4)
Colour Plates 597