SEA Calendrical systems, E.J. Brill
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 1993
Date: 2006-09-30
In response to the query posted on my website, Michel Lorrillard
(EFEO) was kind enough to put into my hands the "brief but
compendious" work by J.C. Eade, _The Calendrical Systems of South-East
Asia_.
This is an exceedingly enjoyable work on an exceedingly technical
subject. The author is clearly aware that most in his (limited)
audience will have no aptitude for math, and he takes tremendous care
to make each stage of each equation
pellucid-to-the-point-of-pandering.
For those who don't want to do the math by hand, the author has also
provided a (macintosh) computer programme at the following location:
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-archives/seasia-archives/software
I will (eventually) incorporate some notes and diagrams expanding on
Eade's work (providing some things he omits to do, e.g., a glossary
and some over-arching diagrams of how the different numeral-base
systems interlock, etc. --but not reproducing any of his own diagrams,
which I would consider intellectually dishonest, etc.).
I should also like to mention in passing that I have found several
truly excellent articles by Michael Vickery in the past few weeks, and
I would very much like to obtain a list of his complete works (or to
have his e-mail address to ask him for the same directly) so that I
might work my way through them all.
E.M.