[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971) › c8.4 # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.4 Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.4 - **Language:** English ### [c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.4) My time would only permit me to take down the particular dimensions of the most capital instrument, or the greater equinoctial Sun-dial, represented by \*Figure I, A\*, which appears to be an instrument to express solar time by the shadow of a gnomon upon two quadrants, one situated to the east, and the other to the west of it; and indeed the chief part of their instruments at this place appear to be constructed for the same purpose, except the quadrants, and a brass instrument that will be described hereafter. - [Previous: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.3) - [Next: c8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.5) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.4) · Pramāṇa