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The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24: Appendix F

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24

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Appendix F

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*Bibliography.*

F. Bibliography

(1) Jai Singh’s Observatories

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SIR R. BARKER.—An account of the Bramins’ observatory at Benares. By Sir Robert Barker. In a letter to Sir John Pringle, P.R.S. (*Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London*. Vol. LXVII, 1777, part ii, No. xxx, p. 598 f.)

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J. L. WILLIAMS.—*Further particulars respecting the observatory at Benares*. (*Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London*. 1793, part i, p. 45 f.)

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W. HUNTER.—Some Account of the astronomical labours of Jayasinha, Rajah of Ambhere or Jayanagar. (*Asiatic Researches or Transaction of the Society instituted in Bengal*. Vol. v, 1799, p. 177f. and p. 424.)

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*Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des Missions étrangères*. Nouvelle edition. *Mémoire des Indes*. Tome quinzième. Toulouse, 1810.

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J. TOD.—*Annals and antiquities of Rajast’han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India*. (Vol. ii, p. 345f. Annals of Amber, or Dhoondar). London, 1832.

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GARCIN DE TASSY.—*Description des monuments de Delhi en 1852*. D’après le texte Hindoustani de Saiyid Ahmed Khan. (*Journal asiatique*. Cinquième serie. Tome xvi. Decembre 1860, pp. 536-543.)

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A. ff. GARRETT AND CHANDRADHAR GULERI.—The Jaipur observatory and its Builder. Allahabad, 1902.

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SEVERIN NOTI, S. J.—Land und Volk des königlichen Astronomer Dschaisingh II Maharadscha von Dschaipur. Berlin, 1911.

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See also D’ANVILLE *Eclaircissemens géographiques*, 1753, 46f., and *Ant. Géog. de l’Inde*, 1775, 6 f.; J. BERNOULLI, *Des Pater Joseph Tieffenthalers historisch-geographische Beschreibung von Hindustan*, 1785, i, 143, 224, 246; RENNELL, *Memoir of a map of Hindoostan*, 3rd Ed. 1793, 78; *Journ. Arch. Socy.* Delhi, 1853; SIR J. HOOKER Him. *Journ.* 1854, 74-77; BAPUDEVA SĀSTRI, The Mānmandera Observatory (Pamphlet, 6 pp.), 1865; HENDLEY, *Hand-Book, Jeypore Courts*, 1886; J. BURGESS, *Indian Antiquary*, 1906, XXXV, 234-235; LALA CHIMANLAL, The Delhi and Benares observatories (Pamphlet, 14 pp.), 1912; H. G. TOMKINS, *Journ. Cal. Astr. Socy.*, 1912, 71-76.

(2) Astrolabes

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J. J. MIDDLETON.—Description of a Persian Astrolabe, submitted to the Asiatic Society by Major Pottinger. (*Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*, 1841, x, 761 f.)

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W. H. MORLEY.—*Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed for Shah Sultán Hussain Safawí, King of Persia, and now preserved in the British Museum*. London.

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H. SAUVAIRE AND J. DE REY PAILHADE.—Sur une Mère d’Astrolabe arabe du xiiiᵉ siècle, etc. (*Journal Asiatique*, Neuvième série, Tome i, 1893, pp. 5-76 and pp. 185-231.)

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M. L. HUGGINS.—The Astrolabe—A summary. (*Astronomy and Astrophysics*, vol. xiii, 1894, pp. 793-802.) (See also article ‘Astrolabe’ in the *Encyclopædia Britannica*).

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CARRA DE VAUX.—L’ Astrolabe linéaire ou Baton d’et-Tousi. (*Journal asiatique*, Neuvième série, Tome V, Mai-Juin, 1895, pp. 464-516.)

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NAU F.—Le traité sur l’Astrolabe plan de Sévère Sabokt. *Jour. asiat.* 1899, 56-101, 238-303.

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H. S. COWPER.—A Fifteenth Century Planispheric Astrolabe, made at Granada. (*Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland*, 1904, pp. 53-66 and 542-3.)

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S. A. IONIDES.—Description of an astrolabe. (*The Geographical Journal*, 1904, xxiv, pp. 411-417.)

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C. A. NALLINO.—*Asturlāb* (*Encyclopaedia of Islam*, 1913, f.).

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See also DELAMBRE, SÉDILLOT, etc., below; also FOCARD, *Paraphrase de l'Astrolabe*, 1555; CLAVIUS, *Gnomonices*, 1581, and *Astrolabium*, 1593; and list in MORLEY'S *Plan. Astr.*, p. 46. For Arabic-Persian works on the astrolabe (which are exceedingly numerous), see SUTER'S *Math. u. Astr. der Araber*. Persian lithographed text-books are fairly common. See also PRATT, J. A. S. B., 1842, xi, 720-721; MORGAN, *Archæologia*, 1851, xxx, 259-264; LECKY, *Monthly Notices, R. A. S.*, xxxiv, 120; also CHAUCER'S *Treatise on the Astrolabe* (A.D. 1691) and SKEAT'S and BRAE'S notes thereon; L. EVANS, *Arch. Jour.* 1911, 221 f.

(3) Hindu Astronomy

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(a) Vedic

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B. G. TILAK.—The Orion, or Researches into the antiquity of the Vedas. Bombay, 1893.

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W. D. WHITNEY.—On a recent attempt by Jacobi and Tilak to determine on astronomical evidence the date of the earliest Vedic period as 4000 B.C. (*Proceedings of the American Oriental Society*, 1894, and the *Indian Antiquary*, xxiv, 1895, pp. 361-369.)

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G. THIBAUT.—On some recent attempts to determine the antiquity of Vedic civilization. (*Indian Antiquary*, xxiv, 1895, pp. 85-100.)

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See also A. WEBER, *Die vedeschen nachrichten vom den Naxatra*, 1860-1862, and *Uber den Veda Kalendar*, 1862, and *Ind. Stud.* x, 1868, 213-253; B. G. TILAK, *Trans. Ninth Internat. Cong. Orientalists*, 376-383; H. JACOBI, *Festgruss an Roth*, 1893, 68-74; *Ind. Ant.*, xxiii, 1894, 154f., Z. D. M. G., xlix, 1895, 218-230, and L. 1896, 69-83; G. BÜHLER, *Ind. Ant.* xxiii, 1894, 238-249; H. OLDENBERG, Z. D. M. G., xlviii, 1894, 629-648, xlix, 1895, 470-478. DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, 1895, xxiv, 245-6; FLEET, *J.R.A.S.*, 1911, 514-518 and 1119; BERIEDALE KEITH, *J.R.A.S.*, 1911, 794 and 1914, 627-640; R. SHAMASASTRY, *Ind. Ant.*, xli, 1912, 26, 45, 77, 117, 290 and xlii, 1913, 19, 32, 72; N. K. DUTT, *Dacca Review*, 1915, v, 270 ff, etc.

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(b) Texts and Commentaries

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[W. D. WHITNEY AND] E. BURGESS.—Translation of the Sūrya Siddhānta, a Text-book of Hindu Astronomy, with notes and appendix by Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, assisted by the committee of Publication. (*Journal of the American Oriental Society*, 1858, pp. 141-498.)

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BAPU DEVA SASTRI.—Translation of the Sūrya Siddhānta and of the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi by the late Lancelot Wilkinson, revised by B. D. Shastri, Calcutta, 1861.

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* H. KERN.—The Āryabhaṭīyas with the Commentary, Batadīpika of Paramadīśvara. *Leiden*, 1874.

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G. THIBAUT AND SUDHAKARA DVIVEDI.—The Pañchasiddhāntikā. The astronomical work of Varāha Mihira. The text edited with an original commentary in Sanskrit and an English Translation and Introduction. Benares, 1889.

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* BRĀHMASPHUṬASIDDHANTA AND DHYANAGRAHOPADESHADHYAYA BY BRAHMAGUPTA.—Edited with his own commentary by Mahāmahopādhyaya Sudhākara Dvivedin. *Benares*. 1902.

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LALA CHHOTE LAL.—The obscure text of the Jyotisha Vedāṅga explained. Allahabad, 1907.

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* BHĀSKARA.—The Treatise on astronomy by Bhāskarāchārya with his own exposition, the Vasana Bhashya. Formerly edited by the late Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Bapu Deo Shastri.

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See also ROER, J. A. S. B., 1844; A. WEBER *Ind. Stud.* x, 1866, 213 f.; HOERNLE, *J. A. S. B.*, 1893, lvii, 9-18; THIBAUT, J. A. S. B., 1877, xlvi, 411-437, 1880, xlix, 107-127 and 181-206, and 1884, LII, 259-293; J. BURGESS, *Ind. Ant.*, 1891, xx, 53; DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, XIX, 1890; SUDHĀKARA DVIVEDI'S *Jyantisham*, Benares, 1908; XIX, 45-54; M. P. KAREGAT, *J. A. S. Bombay*, 1896; The Benares *Sanskrit Series*, etc.

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∗ In Sanskrit only.

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(c) General

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J. S. BAILLY.—*Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale*. 1787.

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J. BENTLEY.—A Historical view of Hindu Astronomy from the earliest dawn of that science in India to the present time. In two Parts, part i. The Ancient Astronomy. Part ii. The Modern Astronomy, etc. London, 1825.

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J. M. F. GUERIN.—*Astronomie Indienne d'après la Doctrine et les livres anciennes et modernes des Brammes sur l'Astronomie, l'Astrologie et la Chronolgie—Suivie de l'examen de l'astronomie des anciens peuples de l'Orient et de l'Explication des principaux Monuments astronomico-astrologiques de l'Egypte et de la Perse*. Paris, 1847.

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* SUDHĀKARA DVIVEDI.—*Gaṇaka Taraṅginī*, or Lives of Hindu Astronomers.

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J. BURGESS.—Notes on Hindu astronomy and the History of our knowledge of it. *J.R.A.S.*, 1893, pp. 717 f.

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* S. B. DIKSHIT.—*Bhāratiya Jyotih-Śāstra*. Poona, 1896.

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G. THIBAUT.—*Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik (Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie*, iii, 9, 1897), pp. 717 f.

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See also DAVIS, *As. Res.*, 1790, ii, 225-287 and 1792, iii, 209-227; JONES, *As. Res.*, 1790, ii, 289-306, 1792, iii, 257-294; J. PLAYFAIR, *As. Res.*, 1795, iv, 158-164; J. BENTLEY, *As. Res.*, 1799, vi, 537-588; BUCHANAN, *As. Res.*, 1799, vi, 163 f.; JONES, *Works*, iv, 1-47, 48-69, 71-92; J. BENTLEY, *As. Res.*, 1805, viii, 193-244; H. T. COLEBROOKE, *As. Res.*, 1807, ix, 323-376 and 1816, XII, 209-250 [also *Misc. Essays*, 1872, II, xiv, 321-373 and II, xv, 374-416]; T. WARREN, *Kala Sankalita* 1825; H. R. HOISINGTON, *Oriental Astronomer*, Jaffna, 1848; W. BRENNAND, *Hindu Astronomy*, 1896; T AUFRECHT, *Cat. Bod.*, viii, 325 f., 1864; J. EGGELING, *Cat. Sans. MSS.*, India Office, part V, x, 1896; *CALCUTTA REVIEW*, 1850, xxv, 65-85; 1900, cx, 344-356; FLEET, *J. R. A. S.*, 1915, 213-230, etc., etc. A. BOUTQIN, *Ciel et Terre*, Bruxelles, 1908, pp. 105-112, 129-133, 159-163, 213-222.

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(d) Chronology

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See DIKSHIT, *Corp. Inscr. Ind.*, 1888, iii, 161-176; JACOBI, *Ind. Ant.*, 1888, xvii, 145-181, *Ep. Ind.*, i, 403-460 and ii, 487-498; SCHRAM, *Ind. Ant.*, 1889, xviii, 290-300; DIKSHIT, *Ind. Ant.*, 1890, xix, 48 f.; SEWELL and DIKSHIT, *The Indian Calendar*, 1896; KIELHORN, *Ind. Ant.*, 1899, xviii, 193-209 and 380-386; R. SCHRAM, *Kalendariographische und Chronologische Tafeln*. 1908; FLEET, *Enc. Britannica*, 13, 491-501; PILLAI, *Indian Chronology*, 1911; SEWELL, *Indian Chronography*, 1912; etc.

(4) Muslim Astronomy

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DELAMBRE.—*Histoire de l'astronomie du Moyen Age*. Paris, 1819.

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J. J. SÉDILLOT.—*Traité des instruments astronomiques des Arabes*. Traduit d'Aboul-Hassan par J. J. Sédillot, et publié avec une introduction. 2 vols., 1834-35.

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L A. SÉDILLOT.—*Mémoire sur les instruments des Arabes*. Paris, 1845.

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L. P. E. A. SÉDILLOT.—*Prolégomènes des Tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg*. Publiés avec notes et variantes et précédés d'une Introduction. Paris, 1847.

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L. P. E. A. SÉDILLOT.—*Prolégomènes des Tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg*. Traduction et commentaire. Paris, 1853.

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C. A. NALLINO.—Al Battānī sive Albatenii. Opus Astronomicum. Milan, 1899-1907. H. SUTER.—Die Mathematiker und Astronomer der Araber und Ihre Werke. Leipzig, 1900. G. A. NALLINO.—Astronomy (Encyclopædia of Islām, 1913, f.). See also JOURDAIN, Mémoire sur l'observétoire de Méragah, 1810; CARRA DE VAUX, l'Almageste d'Abu'l Wefa, etc., Jour. As., 1892, xix, 408-471; L. A. HOCHEIM, Z.D.M.G., 1893, xlvii, 213-275; and FLAMSTEED'S Hist. Cœl. Brit. for Ulugh Beg's Catalogue, etc., etc.

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(5) Astrology.

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H. KERN.—Brihat-Saṃhita. J. R. A. S., 1870-75 and Verspereide Geschriften, i & ii. 1893. A. BOUCHÉ-LECLERCQ—L'Astrologie grecque. Paris, 1899. HARI PRASANNA CHATTERJEE.—The Brihajjātakam of Varāha Mihira. Allahabad, 1912. C. A. NALLINO.—'Astrology' (Encyclopædia of Islām). See also A. WEBER, Ind. Stud., ii, 1853, 236-315 and iii; H. JACOBI, Indische Streifen. iii, 1879, 165-168, etc.

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(6) General.

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J. FLAMSTEED.—Historia Cœlestis Britannica. 1725. DELAMBRE.—Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne. Paris, 1817. DELAMBRE.—Histoire de l'astronomie du moyen age. Paris, 1819. F. BAILY.—The Catalogues of Ptolemy, Ulugh Beigh, Tycho Brahé, Halley, Hevelius. Memoirs Roy. Astr. Soc. 1843, vol. xiii. R. WOLF.—Geschichte der Astronomie. München, 1877. E. B. KNOBEL.—The Chronology of Star Catalogues. London, 1877. J. L. E. DREYER.—Tycho Brahe: a picture of scientific life and work in the sixteenth century. Edinburgh, 1890. A. BERRY.—A short History of Astronomy. London, 1898. A. VON BRAUNMÜHL.—Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Trigonometrie. Leipzig, 1900. J. L. E. DREYER.—History of the Planetary systems from Thales to Kepler. Cambridge, 1906. G. FORBES.—History of Astronomy.¹ London, 1909. C. H. E. PETERS AND E. B. KNOBEL.—Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars. A Revision of the Almagest. Washington, 1915.

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¹ A cheap and excellent little book.

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