Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.67
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.67
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From one of these formulas, we find, that the true place of the aphelion of Jupiter, at the time above mentioned, was 3ˢ, 26°, 50', 40", which is but 10', 40", different from the tables of Chrisnabouram. The French and Indian tables are therefore both of them exact, and only differ because they are adapted to ages near five thousand years distant from one another.