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Professor Thorndike has recently published and translated in this journal1 sections from the Latin MS. Ashmole 191.II containing chronological and astronomical computations for the year 1428 and for the geographical latitude of Newminster. This short treatise is of interest in several respects, but most of all in its use of methods closely related to the Sūrya Siddhānta, the classical text-book of Hindu astronomy. It is this point which we wish to bring to the attention of the reader.
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Cf., e.g., O. Neugebauer, “On some astronomical papyri and related problems of ancient geography”, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 1942, 32, 251–263.
Delambre, Histoire de l’astronomie du moyen age (Paris 1819), p. 176.
Braunmühl, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Trigonometrie, I (Leipzig 1900), p. 79.
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Neugebauer, O., Schmidt, O. (1983). Hindu Astronomy at Newminster in 1428. In: Astronomy and History Selected Essays. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5559-8_35
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