The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh
Sawai Jai Singh's observatories at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Benares, Mathura: instruments surveyed and measured, his astronomical tables, sources and personnel.
- Language
- English
- Author
- G. R. Kaye
- Extent
- 1,349 passages, 55,581 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1918 (Archaeological Survey of India, New Imperial Series XL);… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (G. R. Kaye †1929); published before 1931: public…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 26 parts
- c2 Preface — 39 parts
- c3 List of Illustrations — 3 parts
- c4 Chapter I.—Jai Singh — 8 parts
- c5 Chapter II.—Jai Singh's Astronomical Tables — 86 parts
- c6 Chapter III.—Metal Instruments — 25 parts
- c7 Chapter IV.—The Zarqālī Astrolabe — 42 parts
- c8 Chapter V.—Hindu Metal Instruments — 37 parts
- c9 Chapter VI.—Masonry Instruments — 13 parts
- c10 Chapter VII.—The Delhi Observatory or Jantar Mantar — 122 parts
- c11 Chapter VIII.—Jaipur Observatory — 6 parts
- c12 Chapter IX.—Ujjain Observatory — 23 parts
- c13 Chapter X.—Benares Observatory — 43 parts
- c14 Chapter XI.—Mathurā Observatory — 9 parts
- c15 Chapter XII.—Historical Perspective — 11 parts
- c16 Chapter XIII.—The Evolution of Jai Singh's Instruments — 9 parts
- c17 Chapter XIV.—CONCLUSION. — 17 parts
- c18 Appendices — 4 parts
- c19 Appendix A — 5 parts
- c20 Appendix B — 2 parts
- c21 Appendix C — 4 parts
- c22 Appendix D — 2 parts
- c23 Appendix E — 2 parts
- c24 Appendix F — 2 parts
- c25 Index — 54 parts
- c26 References to the Map of Ujjain — 3 parts