[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 49 # The Book of Akbar 49 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 49 - **Language:** English ### [49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.49) Account of the design of Providence (Hikmat) in the difference between the Greek philosophers and the Indian astrologers in the matter of His Majesty's auspicious horoscope. Some scientific men used to think that the disagreement between the Indian and Greek astronomers,—the former placing the horoscope in Leo and the latter in Virgo,—was due to a difference of opinion among philosophers about the movement of the Zodiacal Heaven. A crowd of ancient philosophers, including Aristotle, were agreed that the Eighth Heaven had no motion. The philosopher Hipparchus contended that it did move, but he did not ascertain the rate of progression. Ptolemy said the motion was one degree in a century and that the revolution was completed in 36,000 years. Most philosophers hold that the rate is one degree in seventy years and that the revolution is completed in 25,200 years. Another school say that a degree is traversed in sixty-three years and that the revolution is completed in 22,680 years. The cause of such discrepancies is a difference in the equipment and instruments of the observatories and difference in the profundity and subtlety of the observations. The fact is, the earliest philosophers did not suspect the motion of the Fixed Stars, on account of its exceeding slowness. For this reason, they did not get sufficient time to observe it. At the time when the Signs of the Zodiac were determined, the figure Leo which was regarded as a constellation of several fixed stars, was opposite to and in front of a (certain) part of the Heaven of Heavens, and now, owing to the movement of the Zodiacal Heaven, it has moved from that part and is in the station where - [Previous: 48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.48) - [Next: 50.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.50.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.49) · Pramāṇa