Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.134
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.134
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14. The error, however, with respect to the apogee, is less than it appears to be; for the motion of the Indian Zodiac, being nearly 4′ swifter than the stars, is but 6″ slower than the apogee. The velocity of the Indian Zodiac is indeed neither the same with that of the stars, nor of the sun’s apogee, but nearly a mean between them.