Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.90

c9.90

55. Between the structure of the tables of the equations of the sun and moon, and the rules for using them, there is not the same consistency; for in both of them, the argument, which we have found to be the eccentric anomaly, is nevertheless treated as the mean. So far as concerns the sun, this leads to nothing irreconcilable with our supposition, because the sun's equation being small, the difference will be inconsiderable, whether the argument of that equation be treated as the eccentric or the mean anomaly.