Kamalakara biography of abraham
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History of Science
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About History of Science
Started as History of Science Board at the Asiatic Society, Kolkata in the year 1960 under the Chairmanship of late Prof. A C Ukil, with an aim to reconstruct Indian Scientific Heritage, the History of Science Division of the Academy has come since a long way. Enlarged in 1965 into a Commission for compilation of History of Science in India, the Board was renamed in 1989 as “Indian National Commission for History of Science”. The 15 members of the Commission has been the doyens in their respective fields of Indian Sciences, History, Culture, Medicine, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Archaeology and other allied subjects. It is empowered to sanction projects on the recommendations of “Research Council” besides providing guidance to international acti
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Mathematical astronomy - Biographies
- Aaboe, Asger
- Abbe, Ernst
- Abraham bar Hiyya
- Abu'l-Wafa al-Buzjani
- Adams, John Couch
- Adelard of Bath
- Adler, August
- Adrianus, Romanus
- Aepinus, Franz
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Airy, George
- Ajima, Naonobu
- al-Amili, Baha'
- al-Banna, al-Marrakushi
- al-Battani, Abu Abdallah
- al-Biruni, Abu Arrayhan
- al-Haitam, Abu Ali
- al-Haytham, Abu Ali
- al-Jayyani, Abu
- al-Kashi, Ghiyath
- al-Khalili, Shams
- al-Khayyami, Omar
- al-Khazin, Abu
- al-Khujandi, Abu
- al-Khwarizmi, Abu
- al-Kuhi, Abu
- al-Maghribi, Muhyi
- al-Mahani, Abu
- al-Marrakushi, ibn al-Banna
- al-Nayrizi, Abu'l
- al-Quhi, Abu
- al-Samarqandi, Shams
- al-Samawal, Ibn
- al-Sijzi, Abu
- al-Tusi, Nasir
- al-Tusi, Sharaf
- Alasia, Cristoforo
- Albategnius (al-Battani)
- Alcuin of York
- Alfvén, Hannes
- Alhazen (al-Haitam)
- Ambartsumian, Victor
- Amili, Baha' al
- Ananias of Shirak
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- Anaximander of Miletus
- Andoyer, Henri
- Apian, Peter
- Apianus, Petrus
- Apollonius of Perga
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Surya Siddhanta
Sanskrit skrivelse on Indian astronomy
The Surya Siddhanta (IAST: Sūrya Siddhānta; lit. 'Sun Treatise') is a Sanskrit treatise in Indian astronomy dated to 4th to 5th century,[1][2] in fourteen chapters.[3][4][5] The Surya Siddhanta describes rules to calculate the motions of various planets and the moon relative to various constellations, diameters of various planets, and calculates the orbits of various astronomical bodies.[6][7] The text fryst vatten known from a 15th-century CEpalm-leaf manuscript, and several newer manuscripts.[8] It was composed or revised probably c. 800 CE from an earlier text also called the Surya Siddhanta.[5] The Surya Siddhanta skrivelse is composed of verses made up of two lines, each broken into two halves, or pãds, of eight syllables each.[3]
As per al-Biruni, the 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath, a ord named the Surya