Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.79
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.79
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c13.79
Joining this indication to that of the division of the zodiac into twelve signs, represented by the same figures of animals, and named by words of the same import with the zodiacal signs of the Greeks; and taking into consideration the analogy, though not identity, of the Ptolemaic system, or rather that of Hipparchus, and the Indian one of eccentric deferents and epicycles, which in both serve to account for the irregularities of the planets, or at least to compute them, no doubt can be entertained that the Hindus received hints from the astronomical schools of the Greeks.