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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Page 38
... believe had ever existed . The elements in question are precisely what these astronomers must have sup- " The inequality or the precession of the equinoxes ; the acceleration of the moon ; the length of the solar year ; the equation of ...
... believe had ever existed . The elements in question are precisely what these astronomers must have sup- " The inequality or the precession of the equinoxes ; the acceleration of the moon ; the length of the solar year ; the equation of ...
Page 43
... is 4300 years before the Christian æra : * and the * That they point to a period more remote than the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , we believe , cannot be de- time necessary to have brought the arts of calculating and OF THE HINDŪS . 43.
... is 4300 years before the Christian æra : * and the * That they point to a period more remote than the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , we believe , cannot be de- time necessary to have brought the arts of calculating and OF THE HINDŪS . 43.
Page 44
... believe , that all the coinci- dences which have been enumerated are but the effects of chance ; or , what , indeed , were still more wonderful , that , some years ago , there had arisen a Newton among the Brahmins , to discover that ...
... believe , that all the coinci- dences which have been enumerated are but the effects of chance ; or , what , indeed , were still more wonderful , that , some years ago , there had arisen a Newton among the Brahmins , to discover that ...
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... believe it to be much more accurate than that by which they now calculate . That it is more accurate , is improbable ; that it may be more ancient , no one who has duly attended to the foregoing facts and reason- ings , will think ...
... believe it to be much more accurate than that by which they now calculate . That it is more accurate , is improbable ; that it may be more ancient , no one who has duly attended to the foregoing facts and reason- ings , will think ...
Page 55
... an improvement which our modern trigonometry owes , as we have hitherto been taught to believe ; to the Arabs . But whether the Arabs are the authors of this invention , or whether they themselves received OF THE HINDUS . 55.
... an improvement which our modern trigonometry owes , as we have hitherto been taught to believe ; to the Arabs . But whether the Arabs are the authors of this invention , or whether they themselves received OF THE HINDUS . 55.
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