Body and Cosmos

Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk
Herausgeber: Lindegaard Knudsen, Toke; Speyer, Sara; Schmidt-Madsen, Jacob

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Produktbeschreibung

Body and Cosmos presents a series of articles by renowned Indological scholars on the early Indian medical and astral sciences. It is published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9789004436695
• ISBN-10: 9004436693
• Artikelnr.: 60666514

Autorenporträt

Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieval India, including The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary (Johns Hopkins, 2014). Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Ph.D. (2019), University of Copenhagen, is a postdoctoral researcher in Indology at the same university. He specializes in the history of South Asian board games and has written on the origins of the games of caupaṛ and gyān caupaṛ. Sara Speyer, M.A. (2017), University of Copenhagen, works as an Āyurvedic therapist. She is also part of an international research group working on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa, an ancient text on astral sciences, her focus being the section on animal omens.