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 22
... gives an account of a visit he re- ceived , soon after his arrival at Pondi- cherry , from a Hindū , named Nana Moo- doo ; who , though not a Brahmin , had found means to learn some of the princi- ples of astronomy . M. le Gentil , to ...
... gives an account of a visit he re- ceived , soon after his arrival at Pondi- cherry , from a Hindū , named Nana Moo- doo ; who , though not a Brahmin , had found means to learn some of the princi- ples of astronomy . M. le Gentil , to ...
Page 25
... give any examples of the calcu- lations of the Indians , though I have many in my pos- session ; but I have no doubt whatever , that the arith- metic of the Indians was the same as that employed by the Greeks and Romans . " The common ...
... give any examples of the calcu- lations of the Indians , though I have many in my pos- session ; but I have no doubt whatever , that the arith- metic of the Indians was the same as that employed by the Greeks and Romans . " The common ...
Page 27
... give the real mean place of the moon at the astronomical epoch of the Kaly - Yug , which is , therefore , 10 ° 6 ° 37 ' . Now , the same , by the tables of Tirvalore , is 10 ° 6 ° 0 ; the difference is less than two- with facility ...
... give the real mean place of the moon at the astronomical epoch of the Kaly - Yug , which is , therefore , 10 ° 6 ° 37 ' . Now , the same , by the tables of Tirvalore , is 10 ° 6 ° 0 ; the difference is less than two- with facility ...
Page 30
... gives it as his opinion , that these tables are neither de- rived from the Persian astronomy of Chry- sococca , nor from the Greek astronomy of Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and ...
... gives it as his opinion , that these tables are neither de- rived from the Persian astronomy of Chry- sococca , nor from the Greek astronomy of Ptolemy ; the places they give at their epoch to the apogee of the sun and of the moon , and ...
Page 31
... give a quantity somewhat different , though not such as to affect the general re- sult . It makes the acceleration for 4383 years , dated from the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , to be greater by 17 ′ 39 ′′ than was found from Mayer's ...
... give a quantity somewhat different , though not such as to affect the general re- sult . It makes the acceleration for 4383 years , dated from the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , to be greater by 17 ′ 39 ′′ than was found from Mayer's ...
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