Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c26.1
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c26.1
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Chapter I. *Bramin’s Observatory at Benares*, by Sir Robert Barker, was first published in the *Philosophical Transactions* of the Royal Society, London (Vol.67 for 1767, pp.598-607 and plates) under the title ‘An account of the Bramin’s Observatory at Benares’. The supplementary note by Colonel T.D. Pearse is taken from ‘Memoir of Colonel Thomas Deane Pearse’, referred to in No. IV below.