A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s2.3
A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s2.3
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c8.s2.3
In India, a formula for this Reduction was enunciated, for the first time, by a contemporary Kerala astronomer Acyuta Piṣāraṭi (1550-1621), author of *Rāśigola-sphuṭānīti* (‘Computation of True longitude on the celestial sphere’)² and several other works on astronomy. Acyuta gives his formula for this reduction in the case of the moon in his work entitled *Sphuṭanirṇaya* (‘Computation of true longitudes of planets’) in the following verse :
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- Sphuṭanirṇaya — Acyuta Piṣāraṭi 1570, Sanskrit