Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 378 pages |
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... Ptolemy ; for the construction differs considerably . " 66 Astrologers also reckon twenty - eight yogas , which correspond to the twenty - eight Nacshatras , or divisions of the moon's path ; varying , however , according to the day of ...
... Ptolemy ; for the construction differs considerably . " 66 Astrologers also reckon twenty - eight yogas , which correspond to the twenty - eight Nacshatras , or divisions of the moon's path ; varying , however , according to the day of ...
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... Ptolemy ; and if , by help of them , we go back from the era of Nabonassar to the epoch of the Kaly - Yug , taking into account the comparative length of the Egyptian and Indian years , together with the difference of meridians between ...
... Ptolemy ; and if , by help of them , we go back from the era of Nabonassar to the epoch of the Kaly - Yug , taking into account the comparative length of the Egyptian and Indian years , together with the difference of meridians between ...
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... Ptolemy . " The tables of Ulugh Beig are more accurate than those of the Egyptian astro- nomer . They were constructed in a coun- try not far from India , and but a few years earlier than 1491 , the epoch of the tables at Krishnapouram ...
... Ptolemy . " The tables of Ulugh Beig are more accurate than those of the Egyptian astro- nomer . They were constructed in a coun- try not far from India , and but a few years earlier than 1491 , the epoch of the tables at Krishnapouram ...
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... Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and their equation for the sun's centre , being very different from both . * " A formula † for computing this ine- quality " ( in the moon's motion ) ...
... Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and their equation for the sun's centre , being very different from both . * " A formula † for computing this ine- quality " ( in the moon's motion ) ...
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... Ptolemy , and the Greek mathematicians , after dividing the circumference , as we have already de- scribed , supposed the radius to be divided into sixty equal parts , without seeking to ascertain , in this division , any thing of the ...
... Ptolemy , and the Greek mathematicians , after dividing the circumference , as we have already de- scribed , supposed the radius to be divided into sixty equal parts , without seeking to ascertain , in this division , any thing of the ...
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