Astronomy in India, 1784–1876

Joydeep Sen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2014
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84893-456-6 (ISBN)

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Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.

Joydeep Sen joined the School of History at Kent in 2013, and works as a Research Associate on a Leverhulme Trust project, 'An Antique Land: Geology, Philology and the Making of the Indian Subcontinent, 1830-1920'. His research focuses on the relationship between science, culture and antiquity in India, considering how both Western and Indian geologists fashioned new stories about the making of the Indian subcontinent and developed new theories associating human origin with geological evolution.

Introduction 1 Researching the Past, 1784-c.1830 2 Astronomy in the Observatories, c.1800-c.1860 3 Constructing Knowledge, c.1830-c.1860 4 Astronomy in the Colleges, c.1800-c.1860 5 Backwards and Forwards, c.1860-1876 Conclusion

Reihe/Serie	Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-84893-456-4 / 1848934564
ISBN-13	978-1-84893-456-6 / 9781848934566
Zustand	Neuware