A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy: From the Earliest Dawn of That Science in India to the Present Time

by John Bentley

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Shrouded in poetry, the earliest accounts of Hindu astronomy can strike modern readers as obscure. They involve the marriage of the moon to twenty-seven princesses, a war between gods and giants, and shadows that give birth to planets. In this fascinating study, first published in Calcutta in 1823 and reissued here in the 1825 edition, John Bentley (c.1750-1824) strives to strip back the mythical aspects of the stories to reveal their foundations...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108055427

ISBN13:9781108055420

Release Date:February 2013

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:334 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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