Oldest diagrams (22 April 967)
Sun of Greater Angkor (in preparation) |
Outer planets in the Hinterland (in preparation) |
Later diagrams (15 April 967)
Outer planets in the Hinterland Jupiter (in preparation) Mars (in preparation) |
Outer planets in Angkor Proper (in preparation) |
Direct links
22/04 tables
Mebon Sun |
Venus |
Sun of Greater Angkor |
Mars in the Hinterland |
Jupiter in the Hinterland |
Saturn in the Hinterland |
15/04 tables
Sun of Chau Srei Vibol |
Mars in the Hinterland |
Jupiter in the Hinterland |
Mars in Angkor Proper |
Jupiter in Angkor Proper |
Saturn in Angkor Proper |
The Midnight system of Aryabhata and the lunar model of Munjala |
The stele of Banteay Srei and the planetary event of April 967 |
A set of interconnected planetary diagrams covering the Ancient Khmer Empire and brought to light by temples built on key locations reveals capacities, in the fields of astronomy, land-
Other web pages of Robert Bywater and Jean-
International Piri Reis Symposium (September 2004)
EAST ASIAN SHORELINES ON THE PIRI REIS MAP OF AH 919 (AD 1513)
From Bywater, R.A.R. and Lacroix, J.-
Antarctic continent on Piri Reis map :
Map projections used in selected portulan style maps including the Piri Reis map of 1513
Wim van Binsbergen (Africa Studie Centrum) with the astronomical collaboration of Jean-
Thebes: a reflection of the sky on the Pharaoh's earth
Cathedral of Chartres: lunar standstills
Old web site : please see here below
Copyright 2008 Jean-
Last modification : 10 may, 2010
JAVA APPLET
Astronomy
The sky between 100000 BC and 100000 AD (french)
Cartographical projections
Equatorial, tranverse and oblique plate carrée projections
Universal transverse mercator projection
Simple conic and cylindrical equidistant projections
Azimuthal equidistant projection
Mercator projection (with circles of "mapmakers from the ice age")
User's guide for Mercator projection
Numerized ancient maps
As a matter of fact, the locations provided by the inscription are fully correct if we suppose the degree zero of the first house-
By using Spica (the house numbers become those written in green colour in figure):
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(Details on http://ancientcartography.net/22-
The basis of this research is the stanza XLIV of the inscription carved on the stele discovered in the fourth enclosure’s gopura of the Banteay Srei temple. We are able to demonstrate the stanza provides the houses-
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(more precise data provided by http://ancientcartography.net/22-
It is worth remembering the houses-
( F.G. Faraut : « Astronomie cambodgienne »)
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Those locations are confirmed by modern software.
The stele’s inscription provides houses-
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(French translation of the stanza XLIV on http://ancientcartography.net/22-
Notice
The Indians used apsides lines which were practically fixed with respect to the star used as degree zero (usually zeta Piscium) but the apsides lines were, of course, (due to precession) shifting with respect to the vernal equinox . As our current web page diagrams were drawn from ecliptic longitudes calculated from the vernal equinox (the only method used nowadays), we should have included the precession of the apsides from 499 CE (epoch of reference of Indian calculations) to 967 CE. Unfortunately, we did not include the precessional shift in the current web pages. The current diagrams will need to be corrected (but the differences are not great).