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Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c26.3

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c26.3

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c26.3

III. *Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares*, by Reuben Burrow, is on ff.263-76 in Add Ms.29233 amongst the Warren Hastings Papers in the British Museum. This paper is originally titled ‘Hints concerning some of the Advantages derivable from an Examination of the Astronomical Observatory at Benares’. The last sheet of this paper is marked ‘Mr Burrows’ and a reference to it is made by R. Burrow in a letter addressed to W. Hastings on 12 June 1783.