Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.10
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.10
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c8.10
This observatory at Benares is said to have been built by the order of the emperor Ackbar; for as this wise prince endeavoured to improve the arts, so he wished also to recover the sciences of Hindostan, and therefore directed that three such places should be erected; one at Delhi, another at Agra, and the third at Benares.