The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.43
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.43
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c5.43
He was pleased to reply, since you, who are learned in the mysteries of science, have a perfect knowledge of this matter, having assembled the astronomers and geometricians of the faith of Islām, and the Brahmans and Pandits,³ and the astronomers of Europe, and having prepared all the apparatus of an observatory, do you so labour for the ascertaining of the point in question, that the disagreement between the calculated times of those phenomena, and the times which they are observed to happen, may be rectified.