Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.216
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.216
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76. The formula deduced from this hypothesis, for calculating the equation of the centre from the anomaly of the eccentric, is the following. Let x be the equation of the centre, φ the anomaly of the eccentric, e the eccentricity of the orbit, or the tangent of half the greatest equation;