Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.49
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.49
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c9.49
⁴⁶ An astronomy, therefore, which professes to be so ancient as the Indian, ought to differ considerably from ours in many of its elements. If indeed these differences are irregular, they are the effects of chance, and must be accounted errors; but if they observe the laws, which theory informs us that the variations in our system do actually observe, they must be held as the most undoubted marks of authenticity.