Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.83
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.83
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51. The result which the Brahmins thus obtain will be allowed to have great accuracy, if it be considered how simple their rules are, and how long it must be since their tables were corrected by observations. In two eclipses of the moon, calculated in India by their method, and likewise observed there by M. Le Gentil, the error, in neither case, exceeded 23' of time, (corresponding to one of 13' of a degree, in the place of the moon); and in the duration and magnitude of the eclipse, their calculation came still nearer to the truth.73