Mean and True Positions of Planets as Described in Gaṇitagannaḍi
Author(s) -
B. S. Shylaja,
Seetharam Javagal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
history of science in south asia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2369-775X
DOI - 10.18732/hssa62
Subject(s) - planet , volume (thermodynamics) , theoretical physics , physics , philosophy , astrophysics , computer science , thermodynamics
The unpublished seventeenth-century Kannaḍa-language mathematical work Gaṇitagannaḍi is transmitted in a single palm-leaf manuscript. It was composed by Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa Jōisaru of Śṛṅgeri and is a karaṇa text cast as a commentary on the Vārṣikatantrasaṅgraha by Viddaṇācārya. Gaṇitagannaḍi's unique procedures for calculations wer introduced in an earlier paper in volume 8 (2020) of this journal. In the present paper the procedures for calculations of the mean and true positions of planets are described.
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