Jagannatha Samrat

Pandita Jagannatha Samrat (1652-1744) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician in the court of Jai Singh II of Amber. He learned Arabic and Persian in order to study Islamic astronomy. His works include "Rekhaganita", a translation of Euclid's "Elements" made from Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Arabic recension of same; "Siddhantasarakaustubha", a translation of the "Almagest" from Arabic; and two works on astronomical instruments such as the astrolabe, "Siddhanta-samrat" and "Yantraprakara", which also record astronomical observations made by Jagannatha.

References

*K. V. Sarma. "Jagannatha Samrat." In "Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures", ed. Helaine Selin, pp. 460-61. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
*Harilal Harshadarai Dhruva. "The "Rekhaganita" or Geometry in Sanskrit", pp. 35 ff. Bombay: Bombay Sanskrit Series, no. LXI, 1901.

External Links

* [http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html#rekha The "Rekhaganita"] Sanskrit text with English introduction. Two volumes. (PDF)