Description: Perron08_006 1883 Perron map INDIA AS LOTUS FLOWER, ACCORDING TO VARAHAMIHIRA (#6) Nice small map titled Forme de l'Inde, d'apres Varaha-Mihira, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring. Overall size approx. 20 x 16 cm, image size approx. 12 x 11 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron. Varahamihira also called Varaha, or Mihira born 505, Ujjain, India died 587, Ujjain Indian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, author of the Pancha-siddhantika (“Five Treatises”), a compendium of Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian astronomy. Varahamihira's knowledge of Western astronomy was thorough. In five sections, his monumental work progresses through native Indian astronomy and culminates in two treatises on Western astronomy, showing calculations based on Greek and Alexandrian reckoning and even giving complete Ptolemaic mathematical charts and tables. Although Varahamihira's writings give a comprehensive picture of 6th-century India, his real interest lay in astronomy and astrology. He repeatedly emphasized the importance of astrology and wrote many treatises on shakuna (augury) as well as the Brihaj-Jataka (“Great Birth”) and the Laghu-Jataka (“Short Birth”), two well-known works on the casting of horoscopes.
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Region: India
Topic: Maps
Publication Year: 1883
Type: Map
Year: 1883
Country/Region: India
