 | 1810 - 578 pages
...principal epochs, which go back, one to the year 3102, the other to the year 1 491 before the Christian era. These epochs are connected with the mean motions...the Sun, Moon, and planets, in such a manner, that one is evidently fictitious. The celebrated astronomer, above alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian... | |
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - Astronomy - 1809 - 406 pages
...epochs, which ;go back, one to the year 3102, the other to the year 1491 before the Christian aera. These epochs are connected with the mean motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, in such a mannee, that one is evidently fictitious; the celebrated astronomer, above alluded to, endeavours,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...epochs, which go back, one to the year 3102, the other to the jear 1491 before the Christian aera. These epochs are connected with the mean motions of...the sun, moon, and planets, in such a manner, that one is evidently fictitious ; the celebrated astronomer, above alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...epochs, which go back, one to the year 3102, the other to the year 1491 before the Christian aera. These epochs are connected with the mean motions of the Sun, Moon, and Planets ; but La Place does not admit that the epochs to which they refer were established on observation.... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 586 pages
...epochs," says Laplace, " which go back, one to the year 31№i, the other to the year 14!)], BC,are connected with the mean motions of the sun, moon, and planets, in such a manner, that one is evidently fictitious. Notwithstanding the arguments brought forward by Bailli, to prove that... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 472 pages
...victim to the most sanguinary tyranny, opposing the calmness and dignity of virtue, to the revilings of an infatuated people, of whom he had been once...which they suppose at this primitive epoch is found. Hail] v, the celebrated astronomer, already alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian Astronomy, to prove... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1836 - 562 pages
...the calmness and dignity of virtue to the revilings of an infuriated people, of whom he had once been the idol. " The Indian tables have two principal epochs,...which they suppose at this primitive epoch is found. BAILY, the celebrated astronomer already alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian astronomy, to prove... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1836 - 566 pages
...the calmness and dignity of virtue to the revilings of an infuriated people, of whom he had once been the idol. " The Indian tables have two principal epochs,...which they suppose at this primitive epoch is found. BAILY, the celebrated astronomer already alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian astronomy, to prove... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1836 - 648 pages
...the calmness and dignity of virtue to the revilings of an infuriated people, of whom he had once been the idol. " The Indian tables have two principal epochs,...which they suppose at this primitive epoch is found. DAILY, the celebrated astronomer already alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian astronomy, to prove... | |
 | Charles William Wall - Sanskrit language - 1838 - 98 pages
...principal epochs, which go back, one to the year 3102, the other to the year 1491, before our aera. These epochs are connected with the mean motions of...which they suppose at this primitive epoch, is found. Baillie, the celebrated astronomer already alluded to, endeavours, in his Indian astronomy, to prove... | |
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... era. These epochs are connected with the mean motions of the sun, moon, and planets, in such a manner, that, setting out from the position which the Indian tables assign to... 