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[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 177, [3 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 145, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.A scarce fascinating and sophisticated work on traditional Hindu astronomy, in both Tamil and English, edited and translated by Reverend Henry R. Hoisington. "The Oriental Astronomer ... is a collection of works in Tamil, with an English translation and numerous explanatory and corrective notes. ... The work has been prepared for the use of the students [at the Batticotta seminary in Ceylon]. ... The purpose of the present volume is not to serve as a text-book, to the supercession[!] of European treatises; but to furnish those who have made good proficiency in the European system, with the means of instituting a comparison between that system and the native one. This we reckon not only a legitimate object, but a highly desirable one." (The Calcutta Review).Henry Richard Hoisington (1801-1858) was an American missionary and principal of the Batticotta Seminary, the first university-level educational…
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[Sothi Sastra]. The Oriental astronomer: being a complete system of Hindu astronomy, accompanied with a translation and numerous explanatory notes. With an appendix.Jaffna, Ceylon [= now Sri Lanka], American Mission Press, 1848. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Printed in both Tamil and English, with numerous scientific, astronomical tables in the text. Including: [IDEM]. A complete system of Hindu astronomy, being a translation of the foregoing work.Jaffna, American Mission Press, 1848.Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper sides, with a gold-lettered black morocco title label on the spine and blue sprinkled edges.
by ULLAMUDEIAN (translator), Visvanatha SASTRIYAR (compiler) and Henry Richard HOISINGTON (editor and translator).
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