NDLI: Mean motions and longitudes in indian astronomy

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Duke, Dennis W.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The astronomy we find in texts from ancient India is similar to that we know from ancient Greco-Roman sources, so much so that the prevailing view is that astronomy in India was in large part adapted from Greco-Roman sources transmitted to India. However, there are sometimes differences in the details of how fundamental ideas are implemented. One such area is the technique for dealing with mean motions and longitudes. The Greek methods explained by Ptolemy are essentially identical to what we use today: one specifies a mean longitude 0 λ for some specific day and time – the epoch
Starting Page	489
Ending Page	509
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/s00407-008-0022-1
Volume Number	62
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/ndviii1.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/MeanLongs.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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