De: Agathe Keller via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>

Objet: Rép : [INDOLOGY] Jesuits on astrology/astrologers in India?

Date: 15 novembre 2019 à 13:34:53 UTC+1

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Répondre à: Agathe Keller <kellera@univ-paris-diderot.fr>

Dear Martin,

your colleague might be interested in what Dhruv Raina wrote on the topic, and refer to the bibliography in his article:

Raina, Dhruv. 2003. “Betwixt Jesuit and Enlightenment Historiography: Jean-Sylvain Bailly’s History of Indian Astronomy.” Revue d’Histoire Des Mathématiques 9 (2): 253–306.

Raina, Dhruv. 2010. “The French Jesuit Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy: The Narratology and Mystery Surrounding a Late Seventeenth – Early Eighteenth Century Project.” In F.Bretelle-Establet (Ed.) Looking at It from Asia: The Processes That Shaped the Sources of History of Science, 115–140. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Springer.

best

Agathe

Agathe Keller

tel : +33 1 57 27 68 87

Université de Paris 

 Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219) 

On 15 November 2019 at 12:35:30, jmdelire via INDOLOGY (indology@list.indology.info) wrote:

Dear Martin,

I have been working on a similar subject since some years and I intend 
to write a book (not before 2 or 3 years). Unhappily, I am studying only 
the French part of it, since many French Jesuits were good astronomers 
and either observed the sky in India or got informed there about Indian 
astronomy.
The best sources to begin with are :
Le P.Antoine Gaubil S.J., Correspondance de Pékin 1722-1759, publiée par 
Renée Simon, Droz, Genève, 1970, and
The biographies of Jesuits by Sommervogel, which appeared in many 
volumes. If you are interested by the French connection, I can give you 
a list of names.
I also wrote an article on the European astronomers at the court of Jai 
Singh II (they were Jesuits) in the Journal des Savants, 2013, 
p.175-192.

Best,

Jean Michel


Le 14.11.2019 20:19, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> With apologies for cross-posting:
> 
> On behalf of a colleague (not an Indologist/South Asianist) who is
> researching the historical attitudes and practices of Jesuits with
> regard to astrology, particularly in the 16th to 17th century, I
> wonder if list members are aware of Jesuit sources that reference
> astrology or astrologers in India. Thanks in advance for any leads.
> 
> Martin Gansten
> 
>