Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.28
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.28
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c13.28
Arya-bhatta appears to have had more correct notions of the true explanation of celestial phenomena than Brahmegupta himself; who, in a few instances, correcting errors of his predecessor, but oftener deviating from that predecessor’s juster views, has been followed by the herd of modern Hindu astronomers, in a system not improved, but deteriorated, since the time of the more ancient author.