A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c4.2

c4.2

This volume is intended as a history ‘in perspective’, a necessary fore-runner to ‘descriptive’ and ‘comparative’ histories of the subject. The aim is to set out in broad ‘perspective’ the characteristics of Hindu astronomy as it developed in Kerala (pp. 1-10), its major achievements and highlights (pp. 11-28), its main trends (pp. 29-40), a chronological account of the astronomers and mathematicians of Kerala (pp. 41-81), a fully referenced and documented survey of the literature on the subject produced in the land, with extracts from manuscripts and mention of earlier writings on them (pp. 81-184) and a similar survey of the literature inspired by Keralite ideas, but produced beyond the borders of Kerala (pp 185-96).