A Critical Study of Brahmagupta and His Works: A Most Distinguished Indian Astronomer and Mathematician of the Sixth Century A.D. |
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... Ancient Nations Brahmagupta's great works like the Khandakhadyaka and the Brahma - sphuṭa - siddhanta took astronomy to Arabs through whom it spread to many countries of Europe . Al Beruni records this testimony in his great book on ...
... Ancient Nations Brahmagupta's great works like the Khandakhadyaka and the Brahma - sphuṭa - siddhanta took astronomy to Arabs through whom it spread to many countries of Europe . Al Beruni records this testimony in his great book on ...
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... ancient Chaldeans gave the tropical points a motion backwards and and forwards , and if ancient astrologers adopted this , then the motion of the fixed stars must have been unknown to them . Jagmini ( p . 229 ) says that most people ...
... ancient Chaldeans gave the tropical points a motion backwards and and forwards , and if ancient astrologers adopted this , then the motion of the fixed stars must have been unknown to them . Jagmini ( p . 229 ) says that most people ...
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... ancient , it must be conceded in favour of the Indian algebraist , that he was more advanced in the science ; since he appears to have been in possession of the resolution of equations involving several unknowns , which it is not clear ...
... ancient , it must be conceded in favour of the Indian algebraist , that he was more advanced in the science ; since he appears to have been in possession of the resolution of equations involving several unknowns , which it is not clear ...
Contents
Astronomy in ancient nations | 1 |
Personal references of Brahmagupta | 52 |
Brahmaguptas Originality in the Khandakhā | 95 |
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