Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.69

c9.69

42. M. Bailly remarks, that the equations for the other planets are not given with equal accuracy, and afford no more such instances as the former. But it is curious to observe, that new researches into the effects of gravitation, have discovered new coincidences of the same kind; and that the two great geometers, who have shared between them the glory of perfecting the theory of disturbing forces, have each contributed his part to establish the antiquity of the Indian astronomy. Since the publication of M. Bailly's work, two other instances of an exact agreement, between the elements of these tables, and the conclusions deduced from the theory of gravity, have been observed, and communicated to him by M. De La Place, in a letter, inserted in the Journal des Savans.