500 Years of Tantrasangraha

Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysAuthor: M S SriramK Ramasubramanian/M D SrinivasPublisher: Indian Institute of Advanced StudyYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 185ISBN/UPC (if available): 8179860094 DescriptionThe year 2000 was the five-hundredth anniversary of the composition of the celebrated astronomical text Tantrasangraha by the renowned Kerala astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji (C. 1444-1545 AD) of Trikkantiyur. Trantrasangraha ranks along with Aryabhatiya (c. 499 AD) of Aryabhata and Siddhantasiromani (C. 1150 AD) of Bhaskaracharya as one of the major works which significantly influenced all further work on Astronomy in India.In Tantrasangraha, Nilakantha introduced a major revision of the traditional Indian planetary model. He arrived at a unified theory of planetary latitudes and a better formulation of the equation of centre for the interior planets (mercury and Venus) than was available, either in the earlier Indian works, or in the Islamic