No Evidence for an Early Seventeenth-Century Indian Sighting of Kepler's Supernova (SN1604)
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2013-03
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van Gent, R.H.
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In a recent paper in this journal, Sule et al. (2011) argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius with a dragon-headed tail indicated that the bright supernova of 1604 was also sighted by Indian astronomers. In this paper it will be shown that this identification is based on a misunderstanding of traditional Islamic astrological iconography and that the claim that the mural represents an early 17th-century Indian sighting of the supernova of 1604 has to be rejected. (C) 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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history and philosophy of astronomy, supernovae: individual (SN1604), METEOR-SHOWERS, ARABIC CHRONICLES, IDENTIFICATION, ECLIPSES, RECORDS, SUNSPOT
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van Gent, R H 2013, 'No Evidence for an Early Seventeenth-Century Indian Sighting of Kepler's Supernova (SN1604)', Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 334, no. 3, pp. 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201211721