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QUESTIONS AND REMARKS 



ON THE 



ASTRONOxMY OF THE HINDU* 



BY JOHN PLAYFAIR, A. M. 



PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, AT EDINBURGH. 



WRITTEN IOTHOF OCTOBER, 1792. 



T)FvESl'MING on the invitation given with so 

 much liberality in the Advertisement prefixed to 

 the second volume of the Asiatic Researches, I h: 

 ventured to submit the following queries and observa- 

 tions to the President and other Membe- 

 learned Society in Bengal. 



I. 



Are any Books to be found among the Hind 

 which treat professedly of Geometry? 



I am led to propose this question, by having ob- 

 served, not only that the whole of the Indian As- 

 tronomy is a system constructed with great geomett . 

 skill, but that the trigonometrical rules, given in the 

 translation from the Surjia Sutthintj, with which 



Mr. 



