Overview
An exploration of Indonesian epigraphical writing. It examines the early Javanese inscriptions, taking account of the detailed astronomical information so routinely presented in the texts. A computer analysis, using a program developed for the purpose, facilitates confirmation or correction of much of the material. It also makes possible a description of the intercalation (insertion of extra lunar months) employed in that version of the luni-solar calendar. Authors have made use of the advanced Calendrical Computer Program, presenting all the astronomical data and the Indian and indigenous Indonesian dating system. It can be viewed on the Web. The book serves as a model for historians working on complex dating problems and provides a guide to the calculation of Javanese dates.
Full Product Details
Author: Lars Gislén ,
Chris Eade
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 10
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9789004117594
ISBN 10: 9004117598
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 December 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
' ...a Handbuch in the best sense of the word and in the grand tradition of authoritative Wissenschaft. Their collaboration has resulted in an important addition to a distinguished series in Oriental studies, each of whose items on the languages, history, and cultures of the non-Western world excels, like the book under review, in utility and ease of access and is without compare in its field the book may be held up as an example to any historian working on complex dating systems. ' D.M. Roskies, Journal of the American Oriental Society , 2001.
...a Handbuch in the best sense of the word and in the grand tradition of authoritative Wissenschaft. Their collaboration has resulted in an important addition to a distinguished series in Oriental studies, each of whose items on the languages, history, and cultures of the non-Western world excels, like the book under review, in utility and ease of access and is without compare in its field ... the book may be held up as an example to any historian working on complex dating systems. - D.M. Roskies, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001
'.. .a Handbuch in the best sense of the word and in the grand tradition of authoritative Wissenschaft. Their collaboration has resulted in an important addition to a distinguishedseries in Oriental studies, each of whose items on the languages, history, and cultures of the non-Western world excels, like the book under review, in utility and ease of access and is without compare in its fieldthe book may be held up as an example to any historian working on complex dating systems.'<br>D.M. Roskies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001.<br>
Author Information
J. C. Eade, Ph.D. (1973) in English, Australian National University, is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Asian History Centre at the ANU. His recent studies include The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia (Brill, 1995) and The Thai Historical Record: A Computer Analysis (Tokyo, 1996). Lars Gislén, born September 19, 1938. Studies in France, Faculté des Sciences, Orsay 1970-71. Ph.D. in 1972 in theoretical elementary particle physics. At present lecturing professor (lector) at the department of theoretical physics, research department Complex Systems, Lund University, Sweden.
