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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... 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 sets of tables , brought to Europe at On the Astronomy and other Sciences.
... 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 sets of tables , brought to Europe at On the Astronomy and other Sciences.
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... tables and precepts of astronomy , procured , as has been observed , at different times , and distinct places , some of them extremely distant from the others , M. Bailly says , all , evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph ...
... tables and precepts of astronomy , procured , as has been observed , at different times , and distinct places , some of them extremely distant from the others , M. Bailly says , all , evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph ...
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... tables brought * Yet the first meridian of the ancient Hindu astro- nomers , it is said , was that of Oujein , then called Ujjaini , and sometimes Avanti , in N. L. 23 ° 11 ′ 13 ′′ , and E. Long . from Greenwich , 75 ° 51 ′ .— The ...
... tables brought * Yet the first meridian of the ancient Hindu astro- nomers , it is said , was that of Oujein , then called Ujjaini , and sometimes Avanti , in N. L. 23 ° 11 ′ 13 ′′ , and E. Long . from Greenwich , 75 ° 51 ′ .— The ...
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... tables had been adjusted . The beginning of the Kaly - Yug , or pre- sent age of Hindu chronology , adjusted to our computation of time , is reckoned at two hours , twenty - seven minutes , and thirty seconds of the morning of the 16th ...
... tables had been adjusted . The beginning of the Kaly - Yug , or pre- sent age of Hindu chronology , adjusted to our computation of time , is reckoned at two hours , twenty - seven minutes , and thirty seconds of the morning of the 16th ...
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Quintin Craufurd. æra ; but the time from which most of their astronomical tables now existing are con- structed , is two days , three hours , thirty - two minutes , and thirty seconds , after that , or the 18th of February , about six ...
Quintin Craufurd. æra ; but the time from which most of their astronomical tables now existing are con- structed , is two days , three hours , thirty - two minutes , and thirty seconds , after that , or the 18th of February , about six ...
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