Tales from early modern Indian astronomy: Islamicate ideas in Sanskritic idioms

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1. Tales from early modern Indian astronomy: Islamicate ideas in Sanskritic idioms

Anuj Misra (Gerda Henkel Research Fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen / Postdoctoral Fellow, Project CEEMSA, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen), Jean Arzoumanov

In its reception of ideas from the Marāgha and Samarqand schools, Sanskrit astronomy of early modern Mughal India adapted Islamicate (Arabic and Persian) concepts to suit the linguistic and logical requirements of its own changing episteme.The practical, physical, and philosophical forces that influenced this change are being investigated by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung-funded project Changing...