Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.2
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.2
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Such playing about with the dates of the founding of the observatory has a curious tale to tell. Barker's account was published in the *Transactions* of the British Royal Society in 1777 and it put the erection of the observatory some two centuries previously. In 1792, in conformity with the request of a Fellow of the Royal Society, another report on the observatory was received from one J.L. Williams of Benares. This was published in the *Transactions* in 1793.⁹