[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918) › c5.78 # The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.78 The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.78 - **Language:** English ### [c5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5.78) On examining and comparing the calculations of these tables with actual observations it appeared that there was an error in the former in assigning the moon's place of half a degree. Although the error in the other planets was not so great, yet the times of solar and lunar eclipses he found to come out later or earlier than the truth by the fourth part of a ghaṭi or fifteen palas.⁶ - [Previous: c5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5.77) - [Next: c5.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5.79) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.kaye-1918.c5.78) · Pramāṇa