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The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c12.16

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c12.16

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c12.16

The earliest known description of the Ujjain observatory was by the Jesuit priest, Tieffenthaler, who travelled in India from 1743 to 1786. His account ¹ of the observatory is as follows :—