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  • ...K. Mahesh and K. Ramasubramanian |title=Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy Selected Articles of Kripa Shankar Shukla |date=2019 |publisher=Hindustan B [[Category:Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics| ]] ...
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  • {{Short description|16th century Sanskrit treatise on astronomy}} ...o be the most comprehensive, exhaustive and easy to use ''karaṇa'' text on astronomy.<ref name="S1">{{cite journal |last1=Balachandra Rao S. and S. K. Uma |titl ...
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  • ...k |last1=Bibhutibhushan Datta and Avadhesh Narayan Singh |title=History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book Parts I and II |date=1962 |publisher=Asia Publis ...k |last1=Jyesthadeva |title=Gaṇita-Yukti-Bhāṣā (Rationales in Mathematical Astronomy) of Jyeṣṭhadeva: Volume I: Mathematics |date=2008 |publisher=Hindustan Book ...
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  • ...tronomy]] and [[Indian mathematics|mathematics]] of the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics|Kerala school]]. He was responsible for bringing to light s ...|| Promulgator of the Drigganita system. || A proponent of observational astronomy in medieval India who had made a series of eclipse observations to verify t ...
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  • ...s}}{{about|the definitions of a 'month' that are mainly of significance in astronomy|other definitions, including a description of a month in the calendars of d ...endar]]s, a '''lunar month''' is the time between two successive [[Syzygy (astronomy)|syzygies]] of the same type: [[new moon]]s or [[full moon]]s. The precise ...
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  • ...e=":7" /> and by the late 1960s and early 1970s, advances in observational astronomy, such as [[radio telescope]]s, changed the attitude of the scientific commu ...embering the physics that first made him great |language=en-IN |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/oppenheimer-snyder-stellar ...
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  • ...] (c.&nbsp;1350 – c.&nbsp;1425) or his followers in the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gupta|1987}}; {{harvnb|Katz|1995}}; {{harvn ...ound in the writings of the followers of Madhava in the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics|Kerala school]]. At many places these authors have clearly ...
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  • ...e development of [[Positional notation|positional numeral]] systems like [[Hindu–Arabic numerals]], the use of alphabetic numeral systems dwindled to predom ...poses even as late as the 13th century far after the introduction of the [[Hindu–Arabic numeral system]].{{sfnp|Chrisomalis|2010|p=166}} After the adoption ...
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  • ...{{val|500000}} years outbound<br><small>(Barycentric solution for [[Epoch (astronomy)|epoch]] 2050)</small> ...my)|epoch]] 2050) is estimated to be roughly 1 million&nbsp;[[Julian year (astronomy)|years]].<ref name="barycenter" /> ...
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  • ...nent during the [[Middle Ages]]. It was governed by the Tanur dynasty, a [[Hindu]] ruling family that claimed ''[[Kshatriya]]'' status. The kingdom encompas The [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics]] flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries. Scholars ...
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  • ...scientists|scientists]], making important contributions in [[physics]], [[astronomy]], [[mathematics]], [[computer sciences|computing]], [[chemistry]], [[biolo ===Astronomy=== ...
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  • ...a'' period, but such claims are not well substantiated. The case for early Hindu awareness of incommensurable magnitudes is rendered most unlikely by the la ...first1=Bibhutibhusan| last2=Singh| first2=Awadhesh Narayan| title=Surds in Hindu mathematics| url=https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol28 ...
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  • * c. 8th century BC&nbsp;– the [[Yajurveda]], one of the four [[Hindu]] [[Vedas]], contains the earliest concept of [[infinity]], and states "if ...eece, [[Eudemus of Rhodes]] works on histories of arithmetic, geometry and astronomy now lost.<ref name="CorsiWeindling1983">{{cite book|last1=Corsi|first1=Piet ...
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  • * 164.8 [[julian year (astronomy)|yr]] | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics ...
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  • ...eveloped to meet some practical need in [[surveying]], [[construction]], [[astronomy]], and various crafts. The earliest known texts on geometry are the [[Egypt ...les had. The best conjecture is that they were part of religious ritual. A Hindu home was required to have three fires burning at three different altars. Th ...
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  • ...10 October 2013--></ref> but the [[Arabs]] represented numbers using the [[Hindu numeral system]], a [[positional notation]] that used ten symbols. In about | title = Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics – Part A: tycho Brahe to N ...
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