Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.144
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.144
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M. Le Gentil makes its Lat. to be 10°, 42', 13". (*Mem. Acad. Scien.* II, p.184) The meridian of Tirvalore nearly touches the west side of Ceylon, and therefore may be supposed to coincide with the first meridian, as laid down by Father Du Champ. There is no reduction of longitude employed in the methods of Tirvalore. 20. These tables are published by M. Bailly, *Ast. Ind.*, p.335 & c. See also p.31, & c.