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Asiatick Researches or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities of Arts Sciences and Literature of Asia

1808

The proof of regular changes in the atmosphere corresponding with the revolutions of lunar attration being now established by the discovery of a regular diurnal and a s(ptenary flux and reflux in the mercury of the barometer coincident with the diurnal and septenary revolutions of the same power the theory of sol-lunar influence in fevers receives from this event all the support that can be [...] But a's the paroxysms of the iinperfect. types after the commencement of the neaps are generally disposed to become less distinct in their form and therefore not so easily reducible tthe figure of a diagram I have confined my reprsc.intation of types to the period of the springs; when the paroxysms or fevers happen towards the middle of the clay and night; and are most reglar and dis [...] The dresses the utensils canoes and many of the articles of the domestic (economy of the ancient 1-1.rtiptiatz.v are rcprcsciced in the most minute and pleaing maniwr ; and the cutii c state of these figures not only in shape brit colouring convCvs the most perfect idea of the habits of the times. [...] The mystic symbol of the winged Orb of which reiterated rpresentations decorate the ceiling of the central division of the peristyle extending entirely across bears the brightest hues ; the same mysterious type adorns the entablature oNer the entrance and the interior face of the same part of the gateway ; the wa!is are covered with various sculptures reprsenting different parts of the h [...] sta TI I ingenious and learned author of the inquiry into the life and writings of ISOMER speaks of abstracted mythology as the result of great search and science : being a comparison of the harmony and discord the resemblance and dissimilitude of the powers and rrts of the universe it often cosists of their finest proportions and hidden apttudes set together and personated by a being
history
Pages
250
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Observations Respecting the Remarkable Ejects of Sol-Lunar Influence in the Fevers of India; with the Schemc of an Astronomical Ephemeris for the purposes of Medicine and Meteorology
1-iii Francis Balfour view
Extract from a Journal during the Late Campaign in Egypt
35-44 C. B. Burr view
Of the Origin of the Hindu Religion
44-88 J. D. Paterson view
Extracts from the “Essence of Logic ” Proposed as a Small Supplement to Arabic and Persian Grammar; and with a View to Elucidate Certain Points Connected with Oriental Literature
89-136 Francis Balfour view
An Account of the Measurement of an Arc on the Meridian on the Coast of Coromandel and the Lengths of a Degree Deduced therefrom in the Latitude 12 32.
137-194 William Lambton view
On the Hindu $ysteins of Astronomy and Their Connection with History in Ancient and Modern Times
195-240 J. Bentley view

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