Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.146
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.146
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22. They were explained, or rather decyphered by M. Le Gentil in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for 1784, p.482 & c.; for they were not understood by the missionary who sent them to Europe, nor probably by the Brahmins who instructed him. M. Le Gentil thinks that they have the appearance of being copied from inscriptions on stone. The minutes and seconds are ranged in rows under one another, not in vertical columns, and without any title to point out their meaning, or their connection. These tables are published, *Mem. Acad. Scien.* Ibid p.492, and *Ast. Ind.*, p.414.