Documento 617 - Papers of John Bentley relating to Hindu astronomy

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Código de referência

Add. MS a/617

Título

Papers of John Bentley relating to Hindu astronomy

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  • 19th c. (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Documento

Dimensão e suporte

2 boxes

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Nome do produtor

(c 1756-1823)

História biográfica

Author of A historical view of the Hindu astronomy : from the earliest dawn of that science in India to the present time. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1825. Formed a collection of Sanskrit manuscripts which passed to Dr Mill, and eventually passed toread more

História do arquivo

Bentley's papers and collection of Sanskrit manuscripts passed to William Hodge Mill on his death.

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

Acquired from William Hodge Mill's executors in 1858.

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Âmbito e conteúdo

Notes, manuscripts, and printed material related to astronomy and John Bentley's work on Hindu astronomy.

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Unidades de descrição relacionadas

See also: the Trinity College Library copy of XIII. On the antiquity of the Suryá Siddhánta, and the formation of the astronomical cycles therein contained [London, 1801], which has 39 pp. of notes by Bentley bound in at the back of the volume,read more

Nota de publicação

John Bentley's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, which were acquired by Trinity College Library, were catalogued by Theodor Aufrecht as A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge and London, 1869.