Infrapink (he/his/him)

I've spent the last several months trying to decipher an 1860 English translation of the #SuryaSiddhanta, which was originally written in #Sanskrit and published in its final form in KY 3606 (505 AD). After tracing multiple errors and bugs, I've finally gotten a pretty accurate algorithm which agrees with the methods of late Classical Indian #astronomy as well as observations...

And it looks like modern Indian Solar New Year is actually synched to the #GregorianCalendar.

#Programming

Jan 30, 2023 at 4:55pmWeb
Show threadInfrapink (he/his/him)Jan 30, 2023
Let us not forget that #calendars are social constructs which througout #history have been used to assert the dominance of one #culture, #philosophy, or #SocialClass over another. I'll definitely toot about some of those in the future.