Memorabilia of an Internationally Recognized Self-Made Astronomer from Karaitivu, Jaffna Source:Island Title: ALLEN ABRAHAM (Ambalavanar Subramaniar) and the Halley’s Comet Author: Allen L. Thurairatnam Publisher: Neptune Publishers, BATTARAMULLA (Sri Lanka) 2021; 96pp; LKR 2500.00 Reviewed by E.A. Gamini Fonseka, Ph.D., formerly Senior Professor in English, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Ruhuna, Matara (Sri Lanka) The neat compilation of the memorabilia of the Karaitivu-born astronomer, mathematician, poet, and scholar of the Tamil language and literature, Allen Abraham alias Ambalavanar, Subramaniar, made by the Melbourne-based engineer, Allen, L. Thurairatnam, is a valuable addition to the body of scientific literature on the Sri Lankan intellectual community’s contribution to the advancement of knowledge and the scholarship of modern science. Thurairatnam has collected here reproductions of the topographic maps of the town where Abraham resided, the diagrams he produced in presenting his astronomic predictions, the charts he used in his studies, the photographs of his astronomical ...
Jan 9, 2022
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