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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... opinions of those , whose knowledge in astronomy have obtained for them the high reputation they enjoy in the learned world . The late Monsieur Bailly , in his Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , men- VOL . II . B tions four ...
... opinions of those , whose knowledge in astronomy have obtained for them the high reputation they enjoy in the learned world . The late Monsieur Bailly , in his Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , men- VOL . II . B tions four ...
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... M. Bailly is of opinion , that their astronomical " * See Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , par Bailly , Discours Préliminaire , pp . xxvii , xxviii . time is dated from an eclipse of the moon , OF THE HINDŪS . 5.
... M. Bailly is of opinion , that their astronomical " * See Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , par Bailly , Discours Préliminaire , pp . xxvii , xxviii . time is dated from an eclipse of the moon , OF THE HINDŪS . 5.
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... opinion that they must have had one common origin . He says : " The coincidence appears to me too exact , in most instances , to be the effect of chance : in others , the differences are only such , as to authorize the remark , that the ...
... opinion that they must have had one common origin . He says : " The coincidence appears to me too exact , in most instances , to be the effect of chance : in others , the differences are only such , as to authorize the remark , that the ...
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... opinion , that these tables are neither de- rived from the Persian astronomy of Chry- sococca , nor from the Greek astronomy of Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and their equation ...
... opinion , that these tables are neither de- rived from the Persian astronomy of Chry- sococca , nor from the Greek astronomy of Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and their equation ...
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... opinions on the same subject , which we stated in a former number of this journal . It is not our wish so much to support any particular system on this subject , as to collect the evidence on opposite sides of the question . " - They ...
... opinions on the same subject , which we stated in a former number of this journal . It is not our wish so much to support any particular system on this subject , as to collect the evidence on opposite sides of the question . " - They ...
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