Ebook: Learning With Spheres: The Golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja

This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and
an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical
analyses) of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s
Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenthcentury Mughal India.
Readers will learn how terrestrial and celestial phenomena were
understood by early modern Sanskrit astronomers using spherical
geometry. The technical discussions in this book, supported by the critically edited Sanskrit text and geometric diagrams, offer an opportunity for historians of the astral sciences to understand developments in
astronomy in seventeenth-century Mughal India from a more nuanced
perspective. These are supplemented through explorations of modernity, mathematics, and mythology and how they thrived within Sanskrit
astronomical discourse at the courts of the Mughal emperors.
This book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science,
in particular those interested in the history of non-Western astral sciences. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars studying the
general history of Sanskrit astronomy in the Indian subcontinent as well
as those interested in the technical aspects of Sanskrit and Indo-Persian
astronomy in Mughal India.