Ancient Indian Astronomy and Contributions of Samanta Chandra SekharL. Satpathy Alpha Science Int'l Ltd., 2003 - 291 páginas Samanta Chandra Sekhar (1835-1904) occupies a special position in Ancient Indian Astronomy, being the last link in a long chain of illustrious astronomers commencing with Aryabhata (5th century AD). The book describes how he identified errors accumulated over the ages, eradicated them and brought the subject to final perfection. The discovery of the three anomalies in the motion of the moon, hiking of the Earth-Sun distance by more than ten times the value taken by his predecessors and his novel planetary model with heliocentric motion of the planets are some of his major contributions. How astronomy developed in ancient civilizations of the world, and the frontier topics in astrophysics like Dark Matter etc. discussed in a few articles help in developing an integral perspective of the reader. |
Índice
5 | 23 |
7 | 30 |
3 | 39 |
K Ramasubramanian | 45 |
2 | 54 |
T Pradhan | 64 |
Introduction | 75 |
2 | 88 |
2335 | 196 |
7 | 201 |
9 | 204 |
6 | 210 |
13 | 212 |
Some Glimpses from the Vedic Astronomy | 217 |
16 | 218 |
1 | 227 |
Naik | 94 |
8 | 101 |
3 | 109 |
7 | 116 |
3 | 121 |
A Sketch | 128 |
Ancient Civilisations | 137 |
3 | 163 |
4 | 182 |
SumeriaBabyloniaChaldea | 188 |
4 | 194 |
4 | 233 |
Motivations for Grand Unification and Its Current Status | 244 |
45 | 248 |
Introduction | 251 |
The Standard Model of Cosmology | 257 |
2 | 265 |
Mirror nucleon as dark matter | 272 |
48 | 311 |
53 | 330 |
204 | |
Palavras e frases frequentes
almanac ancient angle Aryabhata ayanamsa Bengali calendar Bhaskara Bhaskara II Bhubaneswar bosons Brahmagupta Buddhist calculation Calcutta called celestial century Chinese computations corrections dark matter described distance Earth ecliptic emperor empire epicycle equation of centre evection galaxies gauge given gravitational Greek heliocentric Hindu Indian astronomy instruments interaction Jupiter jyotisa Kalpa leptons longitude lunar month lunisolar calendar manda mandocca mass mathematical mean measured Mercury mirror mirror matter modern value moon Moon's move nakshatras neutrino observations observatory orbit Orissa panjikās parallax particle period Phys Physics planetary motion planets position precession predictions present proton quarks revolutions Roman Rome rotation Saka Samanta Chandra Sekhar Sanskrit Saturn sector Siddhanta Darpana Siddhanta Siromani sidereal sidereal period sighra sighrocca solar stars started Sun's Surya Siddhanta symmetry Table telescope texts theory tithis traditional Tycho University upto Vedānga Vedas Vedic Venus vernal equinox verses Yantra yuga सिद्धान्तदर्पण