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" He then showed me how the sun went round the earth once in every day, and how, by a different but equally continuous motion, he also visited the signs of the zodiac. The whole system is precisely that of Ptolemy, and the contrast was very striking between... "
The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ... - Page 259
by Josiah Conder - 1828
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - 1828 - 532 pages
...every day, and how, by a different but equally continuous motion, he 256 HINDOO ASTRONOMY. also visited the signs of the zodiac. The whole system is precisely...the day before had acquired, in the very same city, and under circumstances far less favourable. 1 was informed that it had been frequently proposed to...
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - 1828 - 564 pages
...the earth once in every day, and how, by a different but equally continuous motion, he also visited the signs of the zodiac. The whole system is precisely...which these young men were learning in a Government esta1 blishment, and the rudiments of real knowledge which those whom I had visited the day before...
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - 1828 - 564 pages
...very striking between the rubbish which these young men were learning in a Government esta1 blishment, and the rudiments of real knowledge which those whom...the day before had acquired, in the very same city, and under circumstances far less favourable. I was informed that it had been frequently proposed to...
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Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Reginald Heber, late lord bishop of ...

Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 550 pages
...round the earth once every day, and how, by a different, but equally continuous motion, he also visited the signs of the zodiac. The whole system is precisely...rudiments of real knowledge, which those whom I had previously visited, in another school in the very same city, had acquired, under circumstances far...
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On the Education of the People of India

Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1838 - 236 pages
...the earth once in every day, and how, by a different but equally continuous motion, he also visited the signs of the zodiac. The whole system is precisely...the day before had acquired, in the very same city, and under circumstances far less favourable. I was informed that it had been frequently proposed to...
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