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A chronometric approach to Indian alchemical literature.

Indian alchemy, a branch of traditional Indian medicine (Āyurveda), has produced a corpus of texts that are difficult to date using regular philological techniques. This article describes a contents-based computational method that is capable of calculating the relative chronology of these texts. Cen...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 373 - 384
Main Author: Hellwig, Oliver
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2009
Subjects:
Alchemy
Hindu chronology
Algorithms
Chemistry
Medicine
Occult medicine
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