The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c10.70

c10.70

43. Early descriptions. There are fairly numerous references to the Delhi observatory in the accounts of travellers of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century, and some of these are worth recording. Father Claude Boudier and another priest passed through Delhi in 1734 on their journey to Jaipur (see page 6), and took observations of latitude and longitude at the observatory at Delhi. Unfortunately they have left on record no description of the observatory or the instruments.