robert langston wrote: > > Hello Esteemed Dialists, > > Can anyone refer me to sources that discuss the observatories of Jaih > Singh II? > I'm particularly interested to know if the constructions are exclusively > of Islamic astrolog/nomical design, or if there are Hindu influences or > adopted systems- that is if there are significant differences at all.
Dear Robert, In addition to G.R. Kaye's classic work on the observatory of Jaih Singh II mentioned by Peter Mayer, there is also a more recent study by Virendra Nath Sarma entitled _Sawai Jai Singh and his Astronomy_, published in 1995 by Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Delhi). Although it received an unfavourable review in a journal that I cannot remember offhand at the moment (Isis?), it was reviewed more favourably in the Journal for the History of Astronomy (vol. 27, pp. 87-89) and it may still be useful for its description of the present-day situation of Jai Singh's observatories and references to more modern literature. A popular edition of Kaye's studies on Jai Singh's observatories entitled _A Guide to the Old Observatories at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Benares_ was issued by the Superintendent Government Printing Office in Calcutta in 1920 and is still available as a reprint (I have a 1985 reprint by The Academic Press, Haryana). Best wishes, ================================================================ * Robert H. van Gent * Tel/Fax: 00-31-30-2720269 * * Zaagmolenkade 50 * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * 3515 AE Utrecht * Home page (under construction): * * The Netherlands * http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/ * ================================================================
