Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.74

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45. The rules by which the phenomena of eclipses are deduced from the places of the sun and moon, have the most immediate reference to geometry; and of these rules, as found among the Brahmins of Tirvalore, M. Le Gentil has given a full account, in the *Memoir* that has been so often quoted. We have also an account of the method of calculation used at Chrisnabouram by Fr Du Champ.66