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Jai Singh II
Jai Singh.
The star catalogue from the Zīj-i-Ṣultāni was also adopted in the Zīj-i-Muḥammad Shāhī,
the last major collection of Islamic astronomical tables compiled between 1727 and 1735 under patronage of
Jai Singh II of Amber (1688-1743) and dedicated to the Mughal
emperor Muḥammad Shāh (1702-1748). The epoch of Jai
Singh’s star catalogue was 1 Muḥarram 1138 AH [= 8 September 1725], corresponding with a longitude increase of
4° 8'.
Barker, Robert, “An Account of the Bramin’s Observatory at Benares”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
of London, 67 (1777), 598-607 [JSTOR link].
Williams, John Lloyd, “Further Particulars Respecting the Observatory at Benares, of which an Account, with Plates, is given by Sir
Robert Barker, in the LXVIIth Vol. of the Philosophical Transactions”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London,
83 (1793), 45-49 [JSTOR link].
Hunter, William, “Some Account of the Astronomical Labours of Jayasinha, Rajah of Ambhere, or Jayanagar”, Asiatic Researches,
or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of
Asia, 5 (1799), 177-211 [Internet Archive link].
Garrett, A., The Jaipur Observatory and its Builder (Allahabad: Pioneer, 1902) [not seen].
Kaye, George Rusby, The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1917 [=
Archæological Survey of India, New Imperial Series, vol. XL]) [Internet Archive link] – reprinted in 1973 by Indological Book House (Varanasi).
Kaye, George Rusby, A Guide to the Old Observatories at Delhi; Jaipur; Ujjain; Benares (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing
India, 1920) [Internet Archive link].
Kaye, George Rusby, Astronomical Instruments in the Delhi Museum (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1921 [= Memoirs
of the Archæological Survey of India, nr. 12]) [Internet
Archive link] – reprinted in 1998.
Kaye, George Rusby, Hindu Astronomy: Ancient Science of the Hindus (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1924 [= Memoirs
of the Archæological Survey of India, nr. 18]) – reprinted in 1998.
Chetwode, Penelope, “Delhi Observatory: The Paradise of an Early Cubist”, The Architectural Review: A Magazine of Architecture and
Decoration, 77 (1935), 57-61 [??? link].
Soonawala, M.F., Mahārāja Sawāī Jai Singh II of Jaipur and his Observatories (Jaipur: Jaipur Astronomical
Society, 1953) [not seen].
Blanpied, William A., “The Astronomical Program of Raja Sawai Jai Singh II and its Historical Context”, Japanese Studies
in the History of Science, 13 (1974), 87-126 [ADS link] [not seen].
Blanpied, William A., “Raja Sawai Jai Singh II: An 18th Century Medieval Astronomer”, American Journal of Physics, 43
(1975), 1025-1035 [ADS link].
Singh, Prahlad & Sharma, Kalyan Dutt, Stone Observatories in India, Erected by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur, 1686-1743 A.D.,
at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Varanasi, Mathura (Varanasi: Bharata Manisha, 1978) [ADS link] [not seen].
Schwarz, Michiel, De astronomische instrumenten van Mahārāja Sawāī Jai Singh II in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain en
Benares (Amsterdam: Westland/Utrecht Hypotheekbank NV, 1980).
Forbes, Eric G., “The European Astronomical Tradition: Its Transmission into India, and its Reception by Sawai Jai Singh II”,
Indian Journal of History of Science, 17 (1982), 234-243
[IJHS link /
ADS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “The Impact of the Eighteenth Century Jesuit Astronomers on the Astronomy of India and China”, Indian Journal
of History of Science, 17 (1982), 345-352 [IJHS link / ADS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “Jai Singh, his European Astronomers and the Copernican Revolution” Indian Journal of History of
Science, 18 (1983), 333-344 [IJHS link / ADS link].
Mercier, Raymond, “The Astronomical Tables of Rajah Jai Singh Sawā’i”, Indian Journal of History of Science,
19 (1984), 143-171 [IJHS
link / ADS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “The Great Astrolabe of Jaipur and its Sister Unit”, Journal for the History of Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy
Supplement, 15 [= Archaeoastronomy Supplement, 7] (1984), S126-S128
[ADS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “Astronomical Efforts of Sawai Jai Singh – A Review”, in: G. Swarup, A.K. Bag &
K.S. Shukla (eds.), History of Oriental Astronomy: Proceedings of an International Astronomical Union Colloquium, No. 91,
New Delhi, India, 13-16 November 1985 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 233-240
[ADS link].
Spoelstra, T.A.T. & Schwarz, U.J., “Maharadja Sawai Jai Sing II en zijn sterrenwachten in India”, Zenit:
???, 17
(1990), 272-275 [ADS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, Sawai Jai Singh and His Astronomy (Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass Publ., 1995)
[ADS link] – an updated second edition was published in
2016 [link to author’s website].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, Sawai Jai Singh and His Observatories (Jaipur: Publication Scheme, 1998).
van Dalen, Benno, “Origin of the Mean Motion Tables of Jai Singh”, Indian Journal of History of Science, 35
(2000), 41-66 [IJHS link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “Astronomical Tables of Zīj-i Muḥammad Shāhī and their Relation to Tabulae
Astronomicae of de La Hire”, Indian Journal of History of Science, 42 (2006), 175-198
[IJHS link].
Johnson-Roehr, Susan N., The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II,
c. 1721-1743 CE (Urbana [IL]: University of Urbana thesis, 2011) [CORE link].
Sharma, Virendra Nath, “Sawai Jai Singh’s Efforts to Revive Astronomy in His Country”, Gaṇita Bhārati,
35 (2013), 1-17 [link to
author’s website].
Ansari, Razaullah, “Survey of Zījes Written in the Subcontinent”, Indian Journal of History of Science,
50 (2015), 575-601 [IJHS link] – addenda & corrigenda in ibid, 51 (2016), 560-561
[IJHS link].
