Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.60
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.60
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c9.60
It were to be wished that we knew the etymology of the names which are given to these inequalities, as it might explain the theory which guided the authors of the tables. The titles of our astronomical tables, the terms *aphelion*, *heliocentric* or *geocentric place*, &c. would discover the leading ideas of the Copernican system, were no other description of it preserved.