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The fifteen papers collected in this volume are related to the authors investigations into the history of astronomical instruments in India. The history of astronomical instrumentation in India is dominated by two mutually contradictory - yut complimentary - on the one hand the resilience of certain archaic instruments that held sway for long even after they had become obsolete; on the other, Indian astronomers receptivity to exotic instruments from other cultures. Hence the title of the The Archaic and the Exotic.
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The Archaic and the Exotic, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
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- 2008
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- Title
- The Archaic and the Exotic
- Subtitle
- Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
- Publisher
- Manohar Publishers
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN10
- 8173045712
- ISBN13
- 9788173045714
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- The fifteen papers collected in this volume are related to the authors investigations into the history of astronomical instruments in India. The history of astronomical instrumentation in India is dominated by two mutually contradictory - yut complimentary - on the one hand the resilience of certain archaic instruments that held sway for long even after they had become obsolete; on the other, Indian astronomers receptivity to exotic instruments from other cultures. Hence the title of the The Archaic and the Exotic.