Gaṇeśa Daivajña, born around 1507 in Nandigrama and active until 1554, was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer and mathematician from western India who wrote on predicting eclipses and planetary conjunctions and on calendar calculations. His most important work was the Grahalaghava, which included ephemeris and calendar calculations. His Buddhivilāsinī of about 1546 comments on the mathematics of Bhaskara's Lilavati, and in it he calculated the area of a circle by dissecting it into a regular polygon, doubling a twelve-sided polygon up to 384 sides and arriving at 3927 over 1250 as an approximation of pi. His father Kesava, his grandfather Kamalakara and his brothers Ananta and Rama were also astronomers or astrologers.
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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, fl. 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars.
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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, fl. 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars.
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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, fl. 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars.
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His most major work was the Grahalaghava which was included ephemeris and calendar calculations.
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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, fl. 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars.
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