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Ananda K. Coomaaswamy`s Writing on Geology and Mineralogy: Scientific Papers and Comments
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A. Ranganathan, K. Srinivasa Rao
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Ananda Coomaraswamy was appointed Director of the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon in 193. During the next four years, Coomaraswamy’s scientific work was concerned in one way or another with what may be termed as the geology of Ceylon. The writings collected here document all the important findings of that time, including that of the remains of Radiolaria in the Gondwana shales of Sriperamatur near Madras.
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Ananda Coomaraswamy was appointed Director of the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon in 193. During the next four years, Coomaraswamy’s scientific work was concerned in one way or another with what may be termed as the geology of Ceylon. The writings collected here document all the important findings of that time, including that of the remains of Radiolaria in the Gondwana shales of Sriperamatur near Madras.
About Author
ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY was born in 1877, of Anglo-Ceylonese parents. After completing studies in Geology he soon became interested in the arts and crafts of his native Ceylon and India. In 1917 he relocated to the USA where he became Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing a large collection of Oriental artifacts and presenting lectures on their symbolic and metaphysical meaning. An encounter with the seminal writings of perennialist author René Guénon served to confirm and strengthen his view of the Perennial Philosophy. From this period onwards Dr. Coomaraswamy began to compose his mature--and undoubtedly most profound--works, adeptly expounding the philosophia perennis by drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of the arts, crafts, mythologies, cultures, folklores, symbolisms, and religions of the Orient and the Occident. In 1947 his plans to retire to India and take on sannyasa (renunciation of the world) were cut short by his sudden and untimely death. A representative collection of his extensive writings, entitled The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, was edited by his son Rama P. Coomaraswamy and published by World Wisdom.
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