The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.35

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c5.35

He found that the calculation of the places of the stars as obtained from the tables in common use, such as the new tables of SA'ĪD GURGĀNĪ⁴ and KHĀQĀNĪ, and the *Tasahīlāt-Mula Chānd*⁵ *Akbar Shāhī*,⁶ and the Hindu books, and the European tables,⁷ in very many cases give them widely different from those determined by observation: especially in the appearance of the new moons, the computation does not agree with observation."

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