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 12
... contains thirty degrees ; but the Hindus also divide the twelve signs into twenty - seven parts , * which they call con- stellations , or places of the moon , reckoned in the twelve signs ; every sign is equal to two constellations and ...
... contains thirty degrees ; but the Hindus also divide the twelve signs into twenty - seven parts , * which they call con- stellations , or places of the moon , reckoned in the twelve signs ; every sign is equal to two constellations and ...
Page 45
... contains many rules and tables that are of later construc- tion . " The first operation for computing the moon's place from the tables of Tirvalore , requires that 1,600,984 days should be sub- tracted from the time that has elapsed ...
... contains many rules and tables that are of later construc- tion . " The first operation for computing the moon's place from the tables of Tirvalore , requires that 1,600,984 days should be sub- tracted from the time that has elapsed ...
Page 49
... contain rules that have originated between the tropics ; whatever be their epoch , they are all , by their mean motions , con- nected with that of the Kaly - Yug ; and they have besides one uniform character , which it is perhaps not ...
... contain rules that have originated between the tropics ; whatever be their epoch , they are all , by their mean motions , con- nected with that of the Kaly - Yug ; and they have besides one uniform character , which it is perhaps not ...
Page 53
... contains 21,600 . From this identity of measures , they derive no inconsiderable ad- vantage in many calculations , though it must be confessed , that the measuring of a straight line , the radius , or diameter of a circle , by parts of ...
... contains 21,600 . From this identity of measures , they derive no inconsiderable ad- vantage in many calculations , though it must be confessed , that the measuring of a straight line , the radius , or diameter of a circle , by parts of ...
Page 57
... containing a given angle , and if the angle in the segment be bisected by a straight line produced till it meet the circumference ; the straight lines , which contain the given angle , shall both of them together have a given ratio to ...
... containing a given angle , and if the angle in the segment be bisected by a straight line produced till it meet the circumference ; the straight lines , which contain the given angle , shall both of them together have a given ratio to ...
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