Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.25
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.25
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c9.25
16. Another set of tables, sent from India by Fr Patouillet, were received by M. De L'Isle, about the same time with those of Chrisnabouram. They have not the name of any particular place affixed to them; but, as they contain a rule for determining the length of the day, which answers to the latitude of 16°, 16', M. Bailly thinks it probable that they come from Narsapour.²¹