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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1940 Science (Concluding Number)

1941

2 The same transition from the square to the circle must have been the reason for the confusion in the minds of the priests of the Brahmav a period whether altars to be constructed for certain ceremonies should be in the shape of a square or a circles The dimensions of the daily orbits of the sun and the height of the plane on which they lie as seen from the extremity of the earth' (Jambudvipa) [...] Above Saturn is the orbit of the Great Bear (saptarshi kakshi); above this is the orbit of the 27 Nakshatras above this is the orb of the Pole-star.' Then follow measures of the diameters of the globes and orbits of the Sun and the planets with particulars of the `Winds' that blow them along in their orbits ; and then a description of the 18 Worlds' composing the cosmic-egg of which Earth answe [...] The potulation of several kinds of winds (Wiyu) as the agents causing the motion of the celestial bodies the wave-like motion for the planets and the mention of loops for Jupiter and Saturn are features of Hindu astronomy of the period of the Siddh5ntas or earlier 1 rather than of the west. [...] From an evolutionary stand-point the square appears to have given place to the circle the intermediate stages being marked by the pentagon hexagon octagon etc.2 While the solar orbit and the zodiac—the path of all the planets—was conceived as a square in the beginning they soon began to differentiate the forms of the orbits of the planets : the pentgram and the pentagon were assigned to th [...] Its spores differ from those of all the known species of Zschokkella in the position of the polar capsules and in having a lid on the ventral wall of the spore by the sides of which the two ducts of the capsules open to the exterior.
technology medicine science
Pages
98
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The Magic Cakras1 and Rectilinear Orbits in Ancient Astronomy
51-68 C.P.S. Menon view
Observations on Two Myxosporidians Zschokkella lis-Semysi N.Sp. from the Gall-Bladder of the Tortoise Lissemys Punctata and Zschokkella Auerbachi (Weill) from the Gall-bladder of Bufo Melanostictus with a Note on the Genus Zschokkella Auerbach
69-i Mukundamurari Chakravarty view
On a Collection of Fish from Kalimpong Duars and Siliguri Terai Northern Bengal
77-84 Sunder Hora, J.C. Gupta view
A Note on the History of Bacteriology and Some of the Early Workers in India
85-92 C.L. Pasricha view
Life-History and Wanderings of Hilsa in Bengal Waters
93-ii Sunder Hora view
A Psychological Study of Arithmetical Ability with Reference to the Students of Secondary Schools
113-130 N.C. Chatterjee view
Reviews of Books
131-136 unknown view
Instructions to Authors for the Submission of Papers for Publication in the Journal and Memoirs of the Society
137-141 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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