A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s5.1

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c8.s5.1

In Western mathematics, the eighteenth century mathematician Lhuiler is credited with the discovery, in 1782, of an expression for the circum-radius of a cyclic quadrilateral.² In India, however, we find the same formula enunciated by the Kerala astronomer Parameśvara (c. 1360-1455) in his commentary on the *Līlāvatī*, in the following lines :

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Līlāvaī — Kouhala, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit