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This article advances the hypothesis that the heightened eschatological sensitivity evident among the historians writing in the 5th century and its weaker echos in the time of Charlemagne were caused by the irregularities of the the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 D. N. Starostin

One of main events on Rapanui before the cruel war (several wars) between the Hanau Momoko and Hanau Eepe was the annual election of the bird-man. Plainly, the local priest-astronomers, the descendants of immigrants from the Andean region…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 Sergei Rjabchikov

In point of fact the Indian tradition in mathematics is long and glorious. It dates back to earliest times, and indeed many of the Indian discoveries from 5000 years ago correspond rather naturally to modern mathematical results.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Steven G. Krantz , Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao

The cyclic model of the universe has an old history in India. It has held the preeminent position regarding the origins of the universe, and it is described in astronomical texts, Puranic encyclopaedias, and philosophical literature. Within…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhash Kak

This thesis employs a hybrid CNN-Transformer architecture, alongside a detailed anthropological framework, to investigate potential historical connections between the visual morphology of the Indus Valley script and pictographic systems of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ooha Lakkadi Reddy

The bird-man cult remains the main secret of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a remote plot of land in the Pacific. This paper includes not only necessary ethnological data, but also some results on the archaeoastronomy. The research of some lines…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Sergei Rjabchikov

The so-called Miccinelli documents are a set of documents which were written by Jesuit scholars in Peru within the first half of the 17th century. Among such documents, one contains the depiction of a Quipu, that is, a device made out of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-11-20 Laura Laurencich-Minelli , Giulio Magli

The traditional cultures of Aboriginal Australians include a significant astronomical component, which is usually reported in terms of songs or stories associated with stars and constellations. Here we argue that the astronomical components…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ray P. Norris , Duane W. Hamacher

This article provides information about the factors that necessitated the need to adjust the calendar during the time of Umar Khayyam, the method of choosing the beginning of the year, and the length of the months. It also attempts to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Rizoi Bakhromzod

I highlight results from Chandr observations of nearby galaxies, including the Milky Way. These observations have offered insights into old mysteries and indications of new high energy astrophysical phenomena and processes that are yet to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. Daniel Wang

The Indus script is one of the major undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. The small size of the corpus, the absence of bilingual texts, and the lack of definite knowledge of the underlying language has frustrated efforts at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Nisha Yadav , Hrishikesh Joglekar , Rajesh P. N. Rao , M. N. Vahia , Iravatham Mahadevan , R. Adhikari

This paper shows that characteristic features of Puranic cosmology, such as alternating cosmic continents and oceans of successively doubling areas, can be traced to Vedic texts. The Rigveda speaks of seven regions of the universe, and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhash Kak

The indigenous astronomy in Africa and of Africans exhibits many of the same patterns as indigenous astronomy found in other parts of the world such as with agricultural calendars established by observing celestial bodies as well as other…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 J. C. Holbrook

There is a good cause to assert that the Easter Islanders constantly watched Aldebaran and the Pleiades in the past. The Russian scholar Irina K. Fedorova and the American scholar Georgia Lee were the first who contributed significantly to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Sergei Rjabchikov

The Mayan culture collected exquisite astronomical data for over a millennium. However, it failed to come up with the breakthrough ideas of modern astronomy because the data was analyzed within a mythological culture of astrology that…

Popular Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Abraham Loeb

The beginning of the calendar record inscribed on the Mamari tablet has been dated to the day of the summer solstice of December 20, 1680 A.D. The moon was not visible earlier at night. Because of a possible solar eclipse it was a perilous…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Sergei Rjabchikov

The aim of this project is to review and expand upon the model proposed by Father Jose Domingo Duquesne de la Madrid (1745-1821) regarding the calendar of the ancient Muisca culture of the central Colombia. This model was dismissed by…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Pena

The traditional cultures of Aboriginal Australians include a significant astronomical component, perpetuated through oral tradition, ceremony, and art. This astronomical knowledge includes a deep understanding of the motion of objects in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Ray P. Norris

We investigate the anomalies in the Earth - Moon system using ancient eclipse data. We identify nine groups of anomalous eclipses between 400 and 1800 AD recorded in parts of India that should have completely missed the subcontinent as per…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 M. N. Vahia , Saurabh Singh , Amit Seta , B. V. Subbarayappa

Jules Bloch's work on formation of the Marathi language has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Srinivasan Kalyanaraman