| From: Thomas Hockey et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference. New York: Springer, 2007, p. 745 |
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Mathurānātha Śarman
Setsuro Ikeyama
Flourished Bengal, (India),
1609
Mathurānātha
Śarman
composed the Ravisiddhāntamańjarī or Sūryasiddhāntamańjarī,
an astronomical treatise consisting of four chapters and tables, in 1609.
This work uses parameters belonging to the Saurapakṣa, one of the traditional
schools of astronomy in India. The tables are for calculating the longitudes
of the planets; there are also parallax tables for computing solar eclipses.
He may have composed two other works, the Pańcaṅgaratna and the Praśnaratnāṅkura or Samayāmṛta.
Selected References
Mathurānātha
śarman (1911). Ravisiddhāntamańjarī. Bibliotheca Indica,
no. 198, edited by Viśvambhara Jyotisārnava. Calcutta: Asiatic Society.
Pingree, David (1973). Sanskrit Astronomical Tables in England.
Madras: Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, pp. 128–134.
——— (1974). “Mathurānātha
Śarman.”
In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie,
Vol. 9, p. 175. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
——— Census of the
Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (1981 and 1994). Series A. Vol. 4: 349a; Vol.
5: 274b. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
——— (1981). Jyotihśāstra. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.