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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... supposed to be the god Vishnu in one of his incarnations ; by others , that it was the death of a famous and beloved sovereign , named Yudhishthira ; but , which- ever of the two it may be , the Hindus con- sidering the event as a great ...
... supposed to be the god Vishnu in one of his incarnations ; by others , that it was the death of a famous and beloved sovereign , named Yudhishthira ; but , which- ever of the two it may be , the Hindus con- sidering the event as a great ...
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... supposed that what had been discovered by Brahe , could have been transmitted to Benares , there intro- duced into the tables , and from thence brought to Siam , during the time that elapsed between the discovery in Europe and the date ...
... supposed that what had been discovered by Brahe , could have been transmitted to Benares , there intro- duced into the tables , and from thence brought to Siam , during the time that elapsed between the discovery in Europe and the date ...
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... supposed to have ever had access . He begins with the tables of 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 ...
... supposed to have ever had access . He begins with the tables of 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 ...
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... the ecliptic ; the place of Jupiter's aphelion ; the equa- tion of Saturn's centre ; and the inequalities in the mean motion of both these planets . " posed invariable , and of which , had they supposed 38 ON THE ASTRONOMY , & c .
... the ecliptic ; the place of Jupiter's aphelion ; the equa- tion of Saturn's centre ; and the inequalities in the mean motion of both these planets . " posed invariable , and of which , had they supposed 38 ON THE ASTRONOMY , & c .
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... supposed that chance has adjusted the errors of the Indian astronomy with such singular feli- city , that observers , who could not dis- cover the true state of the heavens , at the age in which they lived , have succeeded in describing ...
... supposed that chance has adjusted the errors of the Indian astronomy with such singular feli- city , that observers , who could not dis- cover the true state of the heavens , at the age in which they lived , have succeeded in describing ...
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