Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.68
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.68
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41. The equation of Saturn's centre is an instance of the same kind. That equation, at present, is according to M. De La Lande, 6°, 23', 19"; and hence, by means of one of the formulas above mentioned, M. Bailly calculates, that, 3102 years before Christ, it was 7°, 41', 22".⁶³ The tables of the Brahmins make it 7°, 39', 44", which is less only by 1', 38", than the preceding equation, though greater than that of the present century by 1°,16', 25".