2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Philological Study of Islamic Science In India
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14580008
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
科学技術史(含科学社会学・科学技術基礎論)
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Sangyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
YANO Michio Kyoto Sangyo University, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Professor, 文化学部, 教授 (40065868)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMAMOTO Keiji Kyoto Sangyo University, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Associate Professor, 文化学部, 助教授 (60329927)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | Islamic science / Arabic manuscripts / Khuda Bakhsh Library / Jantar Mantar / Jai Singh / al-Biruni / size and distance of stars / Kushyar |
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| Research Abstract |
We visited Indian libraries which possess Arabic manuscripts in the field of astronomy, astrology, and mathematics. Yamamoto went to Aligarh Muslim University and Rampur Raza Library in 2002, while I went to Rampur and Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library in Patna in 2003. In 2004 Taro Mimura, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, joined us with his own JSPS fund We visited Hamdard University in New Delhi as well as Khuda Bakhsh Library together.
We were allowed to take photographs of only 100 pages in Khuda Bakhsh Library, while Yamamoto was successful in taking about 600 shots of photographs in Rampur. Mimura and I visited the Arabic and Persian Research Institute in Tonk, Rajastan. In Jaipur we visited Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory and the library of Man Singh II Museum. We learned how Islamic astronomy and traditional Indian astronomy were coexistent in the observatory and in the court of Jai Sing II. I confirmed the importance of studying the achievement of Jai Singh for our present project.
Yamamoto and I continued editing al-Biruni's astrological work Tafhim and prepared for its publication.
I have been working on al-Biruni's work al-Qanun al-Masudi using the manuscripts which we have acquired in Aligarh and Rampur. I have finished editing the unique manuscript of Kushyar ibn Labban's work on the size and distance of heavenly bodies and my Japanese translation is available now. I will also translate it into English and read a paper on this topic in the 22^<nd> International Congress on History of Science to be held in Beijing in July, 2005.
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] La Cina e le Zone Limitrofe (in Italian)2002
Author(s)
Michio Yano
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Journal Title
Storia Della Scienza (Enciclopedia Italiana's International Encyclopaedia of the History of Science), Volume II Cina, India, Americhe (Edited by Karine Chemla) (Rome : Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana)
Pages: 269-275
Description
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