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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... received them from the Fathers Patouillet and Du- champ , correspondents of the missionaries in India ; and a fourth , which was brought from the coast of Coromandel , by M. le Gentil , and which he had procured from Brahmins at ...
... received them from the Fathers Patouillet and Du- champ , correspondents of the missionaries in India ; and a fourth , which was brought from the coast of Coromandel , by M. le Gentil , and which he had procured from Brahmins at ...
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... received their system from the Arabians : we know , that the Hindus have preserved the memory of a former situation of the Colures , compared to constellations , which mark divisions of their zodiac in their astronomy ; but no similar ...
... received their system from the Arabians : we know , that the Hindus have preserved the memory of a former situation of the Colures , compared to constellations , which mark divisions of their zodiac in their astronomy ; but no similar ...
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... received the arrange- ment suggested to them , but have recon- ciled and adapted it to their own ancient distribution of the ecliptic into twenty- seven parts . " " In like manner , they may have either received or given the hint of an ...
... received the arrange- ment suggested to them , but have recon- ciled and adapted it to their own ancient distribution of the ecliptic into twenty- seven parts . " " In like manner , they may have either received or given the hint of an ...
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... received from the mathematicians of the west . The Greeks left nothing on this subject more accurate than the theory of Archimedes ; and the Arabian mathemati- cians seem not to have attempted any nearer approximation . The geometry of ...
... received from the mathematicians of the west . The Greeks left nothing on this subject more accurate than the theory of Archimedes ; and the Arabian mathemati- cians seem not to have attempted any nearer approximation . The geometry of ...
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... received nothing from them . ” Professor Playfair examines the con- struction of the tables contained in Brah- minical trigonometry . After mentioning the circumference and division of the circle , he proceeds : " The next thing to be ...
... received nothing from them . ” Professor Playfair examines the con- struction of the tables contained in Brah- minical trigonometry . After mentioning the circumference and division of the circle , he proceeds : " The next thing to be ...
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