Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.17
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.17
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c8.17
There are two ring dials; the large one is curious: the radius of the stone arch is 9 feet 8 inches; the gnomon is 4 feet 6 inches thick, and its slant side about 40 feet long: there are steps in the gnomon by which you ascend to the top of it. By the measure of the two gnomons, I find they stand in latitude 25° 20' N. There are likewise two small inclined dials, in which the gnomon is perpendicular to the plane of the stone on which the degrees are marked. Lastly, there is an instrument which I do not understand, the following is a description of it: