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

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

Non programmé

1h

Observatoire de Paris

Orateurs

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

Description

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 Episteme in Early Modern Sanskrit Astronomy (CEEMSA, 2022─23, Grant Agreement № AZ 21/F/21). In this talk, the project PI Anuj Misra and project postdoc Jean Arzoumanov will jointly present some of the latest developments of the project; in particular, those that have emerged in comparing the canons from two 17th century astronomical table-texts composed near-contemporaneously: the Persian Zīj-i Shāh Jahānī of Mullā Farīd and its Sanskrit translation, the Siddhāntasindhu of Nityānanda.