PUBLICATIONS - R.P. Mercier
ARTICLES
(Physics)
ʿThe propagation of fading wavesʾ,
Phil. Mag. 4(1959) 763-776.
ʿDiffraction by Finite Irregular Objectsʾ, Proc. Phys. Soc. 77(1961) 318-327.
ʿDiffraction by a screen causing large random phase fluctuationsʾ, Proc. Camb Phil. Soc. 58(1962) 382-400.
ʿThermal radiation in anisotropic mediaʾ, Proc. Phys. Soc. 83(1964) 811-817.
ʿThe radio-frequency emission coefficient of a hot plasmaʾ, Proc. Phys. Soc. 83(1964) 819-822.
ʿA dispersion formula for potential scatteringʾ, Proc. Phys. Soc. 90(1967) 925-934.
ʿOn the construction of the local field in the dielectric and plasma statesʾ, Physica 45 (1969) 95-103
ARTICLES (History of Science)
ʿOn certain photographs supposed to represent Edward William Laneʾ, Notes and Queries, 1976 394-5
ʿStudies in the medieval conception of precessionʾ, Archives Internationales dʾHistoire des Sciences, 99(1976) 197-220; 100(1977) 33-71.
ʿNewly discovered mathematical relations between Greek and Indian astronomyʾ, Indian J. History of Science, 12(1977) 120-6.
ʿThe Greek ʿPersian Syntaxisʾ and the Zīj-i Īlkhānīʾ, Archives Internationales dʾHistoire des Sciences, 112(1984) 35-60.
ʿThe astronomical tables of Rājah Jai Singh Sawāʾīʾ, Indian J. History of Science 19(1984) 143-171.
ʿMeridians of reference in pre-Copernican tablesʾ, Vistas in Astronomy 28(1985), 23-27.
ʿThe parameters of the Zīj of Ibn al-Aʿlamʾ, Archives Internationales dʾHistoire des Sciences, 122(1989) 22-50.
ʿAccount by Joseph Dubois of astronomical work under Jai Singh Sawāʾīʾ, Indian J. History of Science, 28(1993) 157-166.
ʿThe date of the Mahāsiddhāntaʾ, Gaṇita Bhāratī (Bull. Indian Soc. Hist. Math.) 15 (1993) 1-13.
ʿThe Astronomical Tables of George Gemistus Plethonʾ, J. History of Astronomy , 29 (1998) 117-127.
ʿThe Dates in Syriac Martyr Actsʾ, Appendix II to ʿThe Date of the Martyrdom of Simeon bar Sabbaca and the "Great Massacre"ʾ, by Richard Burgess, Analecta Bollandiana, 117 (1999) 9-66 [Appendix II, pp. 47-66].
ʿIndian astronomyʾ, as part of a CD Window on the Universe, Canopus Publishing Limited, 2000. [Never published]
ʿIntercalation in the Era of the
‘Roger Louis Billard (1922-2000)’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 32 (2001) 369-370.
‘Roger Louis Billard
(1922-2000)’, Archives Internationales dʾHistoire
des Sciences, 52, (2002, No.149) 355-359.
‘Solsticial
Observations in Thirteenth Century
‘The Standard Scheme of the Moon and its Mean Quantities’, Archive for History of Exact Science, 61 2007, 255-272.
‘The Epoch Date of the Ganga Era’, Zeitschrift
der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 171 (2), 2021, 425-458.
EDITED
ʿAstronomy at the Dawn of the Renaissanceʾ, J. History of Astronomy , 29 (May, 1998).
SOFTWARE
Kairos (General Calendar Conversion), and other programs, available from www.raymondm.co.uk
BOOKS
An Almanac for Trebizond for the Year 1336, [Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, VII], Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 1994.
Georges Gémiste Pléthon Manuel dʾAstronomie par Anne Tihon et Raymond Mercier,
[Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, IX], Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste
de Louvain, 1998.
Studies on the
Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS787,
Ashgate Variorum, Ashgate: Aldershot Hants, 2004. ISBN 0-86078-949-7.
Ptolemaiou Procheiroi Kanones. Ptolemy's
Handy Tables, Édition critique,
d'après les manuscrits en onciales du IXe et Xe siècles. Vol I, Tables A1-A2; vol Ia (edition, by Anne
Tihon, Louvain la Neuve) and Vol Ib (commentary by Raymond Mercier, Cambridge
University). Publications
de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 59A, 59B, Peeters (Leuven), 2011.
Conformément
aux observations d’Hipparque : le Papyrus Fouad inv, 267 A, Jean-Luc Fournet, Anne Tihon, Annex by Raymond
Mercier, Leuven : Peeters, 2014.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
‘Astronomical tables in the Twelfth
century’, Adelard of
‘The meridians of reference of Indian astronomical canons’, History of Oriental Astronomy, Proc of IAU Colloquium 91, New Delhi, 13-16 Nov 1985, ed. G.Swarup, A.K.Bag, K.S.Shukla, Cambridge: University Press, 1987, pp.97-107.
‘The lost Zīj of al-Ṣūfī in the twelfth century tables for London and Pisa’, Lectures of the Conference of al-Ṣūfī and Ibn Nafīs, 5-8 Oct. 1987, University of Jordan, Beirut: Dār al-Fikhr, 1991, pp.38-72.
‘Geodesy’, History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One, Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, ed. J.B.Harley and David Woodward, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992, pp.175-188.
‘English Orientalists and Mathematical
Astronomy’, The Arabick interest of the
Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-century
‘Accession and recession: reconstruction of the parameters’, From Baghdad to Barcelona, edited J. Casulleras and J. Samsó, two volumes, Barcelona 1996; vol. 1, pp. 299-347.
Articles: Geodesy, Ibn al-Alam, Zīj, in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (ed Helaine Selin), Kluwer, 1997.
‘East and West
contrasted in scientific astronomy’, Occident
et Proche-Orient: Contacts scientifiques au temps des Croisades. Actes du
colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve 24 et 25 mars 1997, édités par Isabelle
Draelants, Anne Tihon, Baudoin van den Abeele, Brepols 2000; pp.325-342.
[Réminiscienes 5]
‘Programmation
pour les calendriers’, dans Les Calendriers, Leurs enjeux dans l’espace et
dans le temps. Sous la direction de Jacques Le Goff, Jean Lefort et Perrine
Mane. Colloque de Cerisy du 1er au 8 juillet 2000. Somogy
éditions dʾArt, Paris 2002; pp 365-380.
‘From Tantra to Zīj’, in Sic itur ad astra. Studien
zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften. Festschrift für den
Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70. Geburtstag. Edited by Menso Folkerts and Richard Lorch. Harrassowitz (
‘Indian Astronomy’, in Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Editor-in-Chief Paul Murdin, London: Institute of Physics Publishing and Nature Publishing Group, 2001; vol 2. pp. 1188-1193.
‘The sources of the astronomy of Gemistos Plethon’, Proceedings of the International Congress on Plethon and his Time, Mystras 26-29 June 2002, edited L.G. Benakis, Ch.P. Balloglou, Athens-Mystra 2003; 195-210.
Articles on ‘Shams al-Din al-Bukhari’, ‘Jacob
ben Makîr’, in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, edited by
Hockey, T.; Trimble, V.; Williams, T.R.; Bracher, K.; Jarrell, R.A.; Marché, J.D.;
Ragep, F.J.; Palmeri, J.; Bolt, M., Springer, 2007, Approx. 2000 p., 350 illus., 50 in colour, Hardcover; ISBN:
978-0-387-31022-0
‘Astronomical Computation for the History of Indian Astronomy’, in Traditions of Science, Cross-cultural Perspectives. Essays in honour of B.V. Subbarayappa, edited by Purushottama Bilimoria and Melukote K. Sridhar, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2007; pp. 72-82.
‘The reality of Indian astronomy’, in Astronomy
and Mathematics in Ancient India. Actes de la journée d’études organisée le 24 avril 2009 à l’Université
Libre de Bruxelles, ed.
J.M. Delire, Peeters, Lettres Orientales et Classiques 17, 2012.
‘Astronomical Tables
of Abraha bar Ḥiyya’, in Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in
the Jewish Tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, Brill
2014; pp. 155-207.
‘On the Originality of
Indian Mathematical Astronomy’, in The Interactions of Ancient Astral
Science, edited by David Brown, Hempen Verlag 2018; pp. 734-776.
WEBSITE
Kairos 3.0 (2007). General Calendar Conversion Program. (www.raymondm.co.uk )
UNICODE
Unicode character GREEK ZERO SIGN (U+10186), Unicode 5.0 (2007), acknowledged p. xli.
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