Reference number | RR/11/16 |
Level | Item |
Title | Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on a paper 'On hindoo [sic] astronomy' by William Brennand |
Date | 6 January 1892 |
Description | Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. There is 'much that is interesting', but the paper is better suited to publication in a Royal Asiatic Society journal than the Royal Society one. The paper submitted describes a Sanskrit treatise on astronomy, the Surya Siddhanta or Sun treatise, dated from the Gupta era.
Subject: Astronomy
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1891]. |
Extent | 7p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Letter on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1891.0035 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/11/15 |
RR/11/17 |
AP/68/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA6271 | Walker; James Thomas (1826 - 1896) | 1826 - 1896 |