Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c10.9
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c10.9
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c10.9
It is also probable that some useful information may be had from the Observatory at Benares, respecting the obliquity of the ecliptic; for though the ancient observations sufficiently point out a diminution, yet these observations are some of them incompatible, and there is a difference with astronomers of more than one fourth part of the whole annual decrease. This I presume may be determined from some fixed sights that are upon one of the instruments, and which perhaps may be directed to some particular star, or remarkable circle in the heavens.