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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Matters of religion-2
Indrasena and Vrishchika were visiting the house of Somakhya and Lootika. They were seated in a corner of the fire-room, where the latter had installed an image of the god Kumāra in the midst of a ṣaḍara-cakra. Around the image … Continue reading
A commentary on the vairin-s and the like of Viṣṇuśarman’s tradition
In one sense Viṣṇuśarman’s political presentation was nothing short of revolutionary. One may rightly ask: why so? One could say after all he was merely encapsulating in tales the principles already laid out by the ancient ārya-s and thoroughly presented … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, Politics
Tagged ancient Hindu thought, conflicts, enemies, Hindu, India, pancatantra, panchatantra
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The first three squareable Lunes
For the sake of some readers we shall first define a lune: A lune is a concave closed region bounded by two circular arcs respectively with radii and and distance between their centers as , where . This region looks … Continue reading
Posted in art, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged area, circle, circumcenter, Geometric construction, geometry, lune, mathematics, quadrature of circle, squaring a circle
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The salinon
The yavana Archimedes or some later commentator of his among the Neo-Platonists of Harran described a figure they called the salinon, which was supposed to mean a “salt-cellar”. This material was acquired by the Mohammedans from those Neo-Platonists from whom … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged Archimedes, Geometric construction, geometry, mathematics, Neoplatonism, salinon
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van Aubel’s theorem
The van Aubel’s theorem is a simple theorem which is comparable to the theorem attributed to the French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte regarding triangles. It is easy to prove once you know the upāya, even as the yogin-s would say ānanda … Continue reading
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Tagged Geometric construction, geometry, mathematics, philosophy, triangles, trigonometry, van Aubel
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Ovals, drops, tops, eights, pears and the like
Ovals, drops, tops, eights, pears and the like This piece may be seen as a continuation of the earlier one on our journey through the world of ovals. As it needed a lot of figures and some mathematical notation it … Continue reading
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Tagged curves, evolutes, Geometric construction, geometry, leminiscates, mathematics, ovals, pedal curves, piriform
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