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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... the high reputation 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.
... the high reputation 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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... four sets of 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 ...
... four sets of 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 ...
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... four planets successively disengage themselves from the rays of the sun ; first Saturn , then Mars , then Jupiter , and then Mercury ; and though Venus could not have appear- ed , yet as they only speak in general terms , it was natural ...
... four planets successively disengage themselves from the rays of the sun ; first Saturn , then Mars , then Jupiter , and then Mercury ; and though Venus could not have appear- ed , yet as they only speak in general terms , it was natural ...
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... four sides of their temples should correspond with the four cardinal points of the heavens ; and they are all so con- structed . The rules by which the phoenomena of eclipses are deduced from the places of the * Playfair , in Trans . of ...
... four sides of their temples should correspond with the four cardinal points of the heavens ; and they are all so con- structed . The rules by which the phoenomena of eclipses are deduced from the places of the * Playfair , in Trans . of ...
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... is the number of minutes by which the day , at the end of the first month after the equinox , exceeds twelve hours ; four - fifths of this excess is the increase of the day during the second month ; C 2 OF THE HINDŪS . 19.
... is the number of minutes by which the day , at the end of the first month after the equinox , exceeds twelve hours ; four - fifths of this excess is the increase of the day during the second month ; C 2 OF THE HINDŪS . 19.
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