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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... evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph Nicolas de Lisle , a celebrated astronomer , the friend of Newton and Halley . He was born at Paris in 1688 , and died there in 1768 . + A town in N. L. 10 ° 44 ′ near to Negapatnam ...
... evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph Nicolas de Lisle , a celebrated astronomer , the friend of Newton and Halley . He was born at Paris in 1688 , and died there in 1768 . + A town in N. L. 10 ° 44 ′ near to Negapatnam ...
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... evidently formed many of their calculations . They have a cycle or period of sixty years , each of which has its particular name ; another of 3,600 years , and one of 24,000 . From the annual motion given by them of fifty- four seconds ...
... evidently formed many of their calculations . They have a cycle or period of sixty years , each of which has its particular name ; another of 3,600 years , and one of 24,000 . From the annual motion given by them of fifty- four seconds ...
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... evidently the same . 66 Though these tables are scattered over an extensive country , they seem to have been all originally adapted to the same meridian , or to meridians at no great dis- tance , which traverse what we may call the ...
... evidently the same . 66 Though these tables are scattered over an extensive country , they seem to have been all originally adapted to the same meridian , or to meridians at no great dis- tance , which traverse what we may call the ...
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... evidently formed in the infancy of astronomical knowledge . From the rules delivered in the treatises which I have ex- amined , it appears that the cycle there employed , is a period of five years only . The month is lunar ; but at the ...
... evidently formed in the infancy of astronomical knowledge . From the rules delivered in the treatises which I have ex- amined , it appears that the cycle there employed , is a period of five years only . The month is lunar ; but at the ...
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... evidently had never been finished . On the plain at the bottom of the hill , is a village , chiefly inhabited by Brahmins . Near to it are remains of many stone edifices , and a large tank surrounded with stone steps descending from the ...
... evidently had never been finished . On the plain at the bottom of the hill , is a village , chiefly inhabited by Brahmins . Near to it are remains of many stone edifices , and a large tank surrounded with stone steps descending from the ...
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