A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends
When the astrolabe was introduced in India around the eleventh century, it was received with great enthusiasm. While the Muslims continued the Middle Eastern tradition of the study and manufacture of the astrolabe, the Hindus and Jains, who did not read Arabic, composed manuals on the astrolabe in S...
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Brill
2017
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/5, Pages: 198-262 |
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Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad
graphs of the solar meridian altitude
Lahore family of astrolabe makers
Nayanānanda
Shāh Jahān
Yantrarāja
Zawraqī horizons
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