The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.82

c5.82

Since in this place by the aid of the unerring Artificer astronomical instruments have been constructed with all the exactness that the heart can desire and the motions of the stars have for a long period been constantly observed with them, agreeable to observations mean motions and equations were established; he found the calculation to agree perfectly with the observation. And although to this day the business of the observatory is carried on, a table under the name of His Majesty, the shadow of God, comprehending the most accurate rules, and most perfect methods of computation was constructed—so that, when the places of the stars and the appearance of the new moons and the eclipses of the sun and moon and the conjunction of the heavenly bodies are computed by it, they may arrive as near as possible at the truth, which, in fact, is every day seen and confirmed at the observatory.