Information about Mahendra Suri

Mahendra Suri is the 14th century Jain astronomer who wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe.[1] He was a pupil of Madana Suri.

References

1. ^ Glick et al., eds. (2005). Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Routledge, 464. ISBN 0415969301. “the Jain astronomer Mahendra Suri (fl. 1370)...wrote the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe, called the Yantraraja (1370) 

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Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation).
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astrolabe is a historical astronomical instrument used by classical astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses included locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars; determining local time given local longitude and vice-versa; surveying;
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The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times.

Indian mathematicians have made outstanding discoveries in the subject of mathematics as we know it today.
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