Deux journées d’étude organisées dans le cadre du projet HTN (responsable scientifique : Dominique Tournès) par Matthieu Husson, Li Liang et Clemency Montelle.
Université Paris-Diderot, bâtiment Condorcet, salle 612B-Klein, 10h-17h.
Rationale
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 ?
Program
24.10.2012 (Salle Klein 612B)
- 10h00 Accueil et introduction (Liang Li, Clemency Montelle, Matthieu Husson)
- 10h30 Glen van Brummellen “Circulation of Arabic astronomical tables in Arabic”
- 12h00 Lunch break
- 13h30 José Chabas “Arabic Influence on Astronomical Tables in Medieval Europe”
- 15h00 Cofee break
- 15h15 Matthieu Husson “Is the Chinese ’European Layout’ of the Mingshi (1738) realy european ? A case study in layout transmission : first part from Arabic to Latin sources.”
- 16h45 End of the day
25.10.2012 (Salle Klein 612B)
- 10h00 Accueil
- 10h30 Clemency Montelle : “The emergence of ’cyclic tables’ in the seventeenth century : Haridatta’s Jagadbhûsạnạ and its Islamic inspiration”
- 12h00 Lunch break
- 13h30 Yunli Shi “The Chinese and Korean Appropriation of Islamic astronomy”
- 15h00 Cofee break
- 15h15 Liang Li “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”
- 16h45 Discussion. General Conclusion
- 17h15 End of the day.
