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Prabodh Chandra Sengupta

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Name
  
Prabodh Sengupta


Died
  
1962

Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962) was a historian of astronomy in ancient India. He was a Professor of Mathematics in Bethune College Calcutta and a lecturer in Indian Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Calcutta.

Major works

  • Ancient Indian chronology (1947)
  • Khandakhadyaka: an astronomical treatise of Brahmagupta
  • Āryabhaṭīya by Āryabhaṭa I
  • Āryabhaṭa I, the father of Indian epicyclic astronomy
  • Surya Siddhanta: a textbook of Hindu astronomy (along with Ebenezer Burgess, Phanindralal Gangooly)
  • Greek and Hindu methods in spherical astronomy (1931)

    • References

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