Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.16
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.16
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The writer added further: ‘We are not aware that the Royal Society in any of its printed papers have noticed Colonel Pearse’s communication, but our imagination, warmly interested as it has been in all that relates to the subject of the present memoir, has pictured the probability that Colonel Pearse’s paper may have met the eye of Herschel, and may have been an additional spur to the indefatigable and wonderful labours of that great man.’¹⁵