Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.8
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.8
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c9.8
The objects, therefore, which this astronomy presents to us, are principally three. 1. Tables and rules for calculating the places of the sun and moon; 2. Tables and rules for calculating the places of the planets; 3. Rules by which the phases of eclipses are determined. Though it is chiefly to the first of these that our attention at present is to be directed, the two last will also furnish us with some useful observations.