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Página inicialArabic tables in Sanskrit, Chinese and Latin a first internationalization of sciences ?

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Publicado quinta, 18 de outubro de 2012

Resumo

L’analyse de la transmission des tables astronomiques arabes en chinois, sanskrit ou latin est l’un des thèmes majeurs de la recherche en histoire de l’astronomie. Cependant, les chercheurs étudiants ces sujets ont peu d’opportunités de confronter leurs problématiques, leurs méthodologies et leurs découvertes. Un certain nombre de questions méritent pourtant d’être abordées de façon comparatiste et globale : De quelles façons les tables astronomiques arabes ont été transmises et reçues dans ces différentes cultures de recherches ? Quels types de travaux nouveaux ont produit les tables astronomiques arabes dans les domaines sanskrit, chinois ou latin ? Que nous apprennent ces phénomènes de transmission sur les cultures intellectuelles qui en sont le théâtre ? Que nous apprennent les sources chinoises, sanskrites ou latines sur les tables astronomiques arabes ? Est-ce que ces processus de transmissions divers ont abouti à une uniformisation des savoirs et des techniques astronomiques au niveau mondial ou contraire à une diversification croissante ? 

Anúncio

24-25 octobre 2012

Journées d’étude dans le cadre du projet Histoire des tables numériques


Organisers : Matthieu Husson (Sphère-Paris Diderot ; Saprat-EPHE), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, Nouvelle Zelande) et Li Liang (Sphère-Paris Diderot)

University Paris Diderot, sîte Paris Rive Gauche, Bat. Condorcet
Salle Klein, 612B
4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris


RATIONALE


It is well known that in Baghdad during the eighth and ninth centuries, Arabic astronomers relied on Greek and Persian sources as well as ideas and models coming from the Indian subcontinent to design their first astronomical tables, or zijes. The circulation of these works in various parts of the Islamic world and the specific astronomical schools it produced, for instance in al-Andalus (Toledo) or ancient Iran (Ulugh Begh), is also documented. The subsequent transmission and reception of these Arabic astronomical zijes in Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese in the following centuries has also been a major theme of research in the history of astronomy, yet scholars studying these different transmission and reception processes have had so far little opportunity to gather and contrast their questions, methodology, and findings. We seek to address this, by convening a two-day workshop which will function as a forum for scholars who focus on these different aspects to share and synthesise their researches in mutually beneficial ways.

We envisage that the following provisional list of questions will be relevant. Material transmitted from astronomical zijes to Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese works was not always from the same ; how precise can we be about the sources and which texts proved to be popular in which contexts ? Under what circumstances did the tables and their related texts circulate and what sorts of peoples were involved ? Questions relating to the integration of foreign astronomical materials and tabular data into the traditions of the inheritor cultures of inquiry are significant too. For instance, there were long-standing astronomical traditions in Chinese, Sanskrit : how well was data from the zij literature accommodated into these contexts ? What proved attractive and influential to these cultures of inquiry and how was it assimilated into its new setting ? In contrast, in Latin, the transmission of Arabic astronomical tables in fact initiated new direction and vigour into the astral sciences. What can we surmise from such contrasts ? More broadly, to what extent did the large-scale transmission of Arabic astronomical tables produce a standardisation of astronomical science, or rather did it result in ongoing diversification ?

PROGRAMME


WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER

10:00 Accueil et introduction (Liang Li, Clemency Montelle, Matthieu Husson)

10 :30 Glen van Brummellen (Quest university, Canada)
Circulation of Arabic astronomical tables in Arabic

12 :00 Lunch break

13 :30 José Chabas (University of Barcelona, Espagne)
Arabic Influence on Astronomical Tables in Medieval Europe

15 :00 Coffee break

15 :15 Matthieu Husson (Sphère-Paris Diderot ; Saprat-EPHE)
Is the Chinese « European Layout » of the Mingshi (1738) realy european ? A case study in layout transmission : first part from Arabic to Latin sources.

16 :45 End of the day

THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER

10:00 Accueil

10 :30 Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, Nouvelle Zelande)
The emergence of “cyclic tables in the seventeenth century : Haridatta’s Jagadbhûsạnạ and its Islamic inspiration.

12 :00 Lunch break

13 :30 Yunli Shi (University of Science and technology of China, Chine)
The Chinese and Korean Appropriation of Islamic astronomy

15 :00 Coffee break

15 :15 Liang Li (Sphère-Paris Diderot)
Double entry arrays and tables of Huihui Calendar (Arabic Calendric System) in China, A case study in layout transmission : second part from Arabic and Latin to Chinese sources”

16 :45 Discussion, General Conclusion

17 :15 End of the day

Categorias

Locais

  • Université Paris Diderot, bâtiment Condorcet, 6e etage, salle 612B Klein - 4 rue Elsa Morante
    Paris, França (75013)

Datas

  • quarta, 24 de outubro de 2012
  • quinta, 25 de outubro de 2012

Ficheiros anexos

Palavras-chave

  • transmission, tables astronomiques, Arabe, Chinois, Sanskrit, Latin, astronomical tables, arabic, chinese

Contactos

  • Matthieu HUSSON
    courriel : matthieu [dot] husson [at] obspm [dot] fr

Fonte da informação

  • Nad Fachard
    courriel : nad [dot] fachard [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr

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« Arabic tables in Sanskrit, Chinese and Latin a first internationalization of sciences ? », Jornadas, Calenda, Publicado quinta, 18 de outubro de 2012, https://doi.org/10.58079/lw6

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