[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) › c8.5 # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.5 Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.5 - **Language:** English ### [c8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.5) \*Figure I, B\*, is another instrument for the purpose of determining the exact hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon, which stands perpendicular to and in the center of a flat circular stone, supported in an oblique situation by means of four upright stones and a cross-piece; so that the shadow of the gnomon, which is a perpendicular iron rod, is thrown upon the divisions of the circle described on the face of the flat, circular stone. - [Previous: c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.4) - [Next: c8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.6) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8.5) · Pramāṇa