The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.77

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c5.77

⁵ We know that, besides La Hire's tables, Jai Singh possessed those of Ulugh Beg and Flamsteed. The latter's work contains also the tables of Tycho Brahe, the Landgrave Hesse, and Hevelius. Other possible tables are the Toletan Table of 1080; the Alfonsine Tables, 1252; Reinhold's Prussian Tables, 1551; Kepler's *Rudolphine Tables*, 1627; Cassini's tables, 1668 and 1693; Halley's tables, 1719; etc.

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