Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.10
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.10
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Next is the long and learned review (Chapter II), ‘Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins’, by John Playfair, read by him in 1789. In this article, the author begins by referring to certain astronomical tables received from the East Indies by European scholars at an early stage in their contact with the East. Some of these tables were received from Siam and their ‘epoch’ corresponded to 21 March 638 A.D. But the point to note was that the ‘meridian’ of these tables was not Siam but Benares!