Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.73
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.73
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44. The argument, however, which regards the originality of these tables, is, in some measure, incomplete, till we considered the geometrical principles which have been employed in their construction. For it is not impossible, that when seen connected by those principles, and united into general theorems, they may be found to have relations to the Greek astronomy, which did not appear, when the parts were examined singly. On this subject, therefore, I am now to offer a few observations.