A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy, from the Earliest Dawn of that Science in India, to the Present Time: In Two Parts. Part I. The Ancient Astronomy. Part II. The Modern Astronomy, with an Explanation of the Apparent Cause of Its Introduction, and the Various Impositions that Followed. To which are Added, I. Hindu Tables of Equations. II. Remarks on the Chinese Astronomy. III. Translation of Certain Hieroglyphics, Called the Zodiacs of DenderaBiblio Verlag, 1970 - 282 pages |
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Commencement of the fifth astronomical period Astronomy further | 74 |
SECTION I | 83 |
SECTION II | 115 |
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ancient Anubis aphelion apogee appear Aquarius Aries Ārya Aryabhatta astronomical Asuras Aswini beginning of Aswini beginning of Cancer Bhaskara Brahma Gupta Brahma Siddhanta Capricorn Colebrooke Colures commencement computation constellations cosmical rising ecliptic enters the sign epoch equinoxes errors figure forgery geocentric longitude give given head heliacal rising heliocentric longitude Hindu astronomy Hindu books Hindu sphere imposition Jupiter Kali Yuga Kalpa latitude Lunar Asterism Lunar Mansions marked Mars mean annual motions mean longitude mean motions Mercury middle column modern month moon's Node number of revolutions observations period Pisces planets positions precession Rāmāyana reckoned Represented respect right ascension Rishis rising of Canopus Roman calendar Saturn serpent spurious Arya Subtract suh yih sun enters sun's longitude sun's mean longitude supposed Surya Siddhanta system of Brahma tablet Taurus tion tropical sphere twice equated Ujein Varaha Mihira Venus vernal equinoctial point Virgo Vishnu winter solstice