Al-Bīrūnī’s India, Chapter 14

An Account of Indian Astronomical, Mathematical and Other Literature

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa.v8i.54

Keywords:

al-Bīrūnī, India, sciences, history of science, history of mathematics, history of alchemy, history of medicine, South Asia, Sanskrit, Arabic, history of astronomy

Abstract

This article provides a new English translation of Chapter 14 of al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb taḥqīq mā li-l-Hind. The whole book was translated by E. Sachau (as Alberuni's India) more than 100 years ago. Thanks to the more recent work by David Pingree, especially the Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, we can offer  many improvements and additions to Sachau's translation. We focused our attention to Chapter 14 of the same book where we find much interesting information about the history of Indian astronomy and mathematics.  In the Appendix we have compared the table of contents of the Brāhmasphutasiddhānta as reported by al-Bīrūnī (in Arabic) and those given in Dvivedin's Sanskrit text.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Noémie Verdon, University of Kyoto

 Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities
Tahqiq ma li al-Hind, Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF Arabe 6080

Downloads

Published

2020-05-14

How to Cite

Verdon, Noémie, and Michio Yano. 2020. “Al-Bīrūnī’s India, Chapter 14: An Account of Indian Astronomical, Mathematical and Other Literature”. History of Science in South Asia 8 (May). Edmonton, Canada:57-76. https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa.v8i.54.

Issue

Vol. 8 (2020)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Noémi Verdon, Michio Yano

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's  published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).