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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... that they knew and prac- tised what the Alexandrian and Arabian schools were ignorant of , * it may be asked * Bailly , Professor Playfair , & c . & c . from what source did they derive their knowledge of them OF THE HINDŪS . 7.
... that they knew and prac- tised what the Alexandrian and Arabian schools were ignorant of , * it may be asked * Bailly , Professor Playfair , & c . & c . from what source did they derive their knowledge of them OF THE HINDŪS . 7.
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Quintin Craufurd. from what source did they derive their knowledge of them . We can assign no other but that of their own discoveries and observations . It has been said that the Indian and Arabian divisions of the zodiac were the same ...
Quintin Craufurd. from what source did they derive their knowledge of them . We can assign no other but that of their own discoveries and observations . It has been said that the Indian and Arabian divisions of the zodiac were the same ...
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Quintin Craufurd. proof altogether demonstrative , that the Indian astronomy is not derived from that of Ptolemy . " The tables of Ulugh Beig are more accurate than those ... derived from that of the Greeks , the Arabians , OF THE HINDŪS .
Quintin Craufurd. proof altogether demonstrative , that the Indian astronomy is not derived from that of Ptolemy . " The tables of Ulugh Beig are more accurate than those ... derived from that of the Greeks , the Arabians , OF THE HINDŪS .
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... derived from theory , is more accurate than that which Mayer deduced entirely from observation ; and if it be taken instead of Mayer's , which * See Trans . of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , vol . ii . p . 155 , & c . + Ibid . p . 160 ...
... derived from theory , is more accurate than that which Mayer deduced entirely from observation ; and if it be taken instead of Mayer's , which * See Trans . of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , vol . ii . p . 155 , & c . + Ibid . p . 160 ...
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... derived from the most ancient of all , by help of the mean motions in the tables of Krishnapouram , without any other skill than is required to an ordinary calcu- lation . Of these epochs , besides what have been occasionally mentioned ...
... derived from the most ancient of all , by help of the mean motions in the tables of Krishnapouram , without any other skill than is required to an ordinary calcu- lation . Of these epochs , besides what have been occasionally mentioned ...
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