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. Translations of Certain Hieroglyphics, Called the Zodiacs of Dendera, Parts 1-2Smith, Elder & Company, 1825 - 282 pages |
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ancient Anubis aphelion apogee appear Aquarius Aries Aryabhatta astronomical Asuras Aswini beginning of Aswini beginning of Cancer Bhattotpala Brahma Gupta Brahma Siddhanta Capricorn Colebrooke Colures commencement computation constellations cosmical rising ecliptic elapsed enters the sign epoch equinoxes errors figure forgery Gemini geocentric geocentric longitude give given heliacal rising heliocentric Hindu astronomy Hindu books Hindu sphere imposition Jupiter Kali Yuga Kalpa latitude longitude twice equated Lunar Asterism Lunar Mansions Magha marked Mars mean annual motions mean longitude mean motions Mercury Mercury's middle column modern month moon's Node number of revolutions observations Pārāsara passage period Pisces planets positions precession reckoned Represented respect right ascension Rishis rising of Canopus Roman calendar Saturn sideral sphere Subtract suh yih sun enters sun's longitude sun's mean longitude supposed Surya Siddhanta system of Brahma tablet Taurus tion tropical sphere Ujein Varaha Mihira Venus vernal equinoctial point Virgo Vishnu winter solstice
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