 BENTLEY, in his ingenious essays inserted in the sixth and eighth volumes of our Researches.* Without entering at present into any disquisition on this subject, or discussing the accuracy of the premises; but acceding generally to the position, that the...  Asiatic Researches - Page 228by Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1818Full view - About this book
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...(As. Res., vol. xii, p. 226). I distinctly there said that " I accede to the position, that the date of a system for the computation of the places of planets...is deducible from the ascertainment of a time when the system gave results nearest to the truth." Mr. Bentley then has, contrary to truth, represented... | |
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...internal evidence, as set forth by Mr. BENTLEY, in his ingenious essays inserted in the sixth and eighth volumes of our Researches.* Without entering at present...results nearest to the truth; and granting that the date abovementioned approximates within certain limits to such an ascertainment; I shall merely observe,... | |
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...(As. Res., vol. xii., p. 226.1) I distinctly there said that " I accede to the position that the date of a system for the computation of the places of planets is deducible from the ascertainment of a 1 [P. 313 in the present volume.] time when the system gave results nearest to the truth." Mr. Bentley... | |
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...(As. Res., vol. xii, p. 226). I distinctly there said that " I accede to the position, that the date of a system for the computation of the places of planets...is deducible from the ascertainment of a time when the system gave results nearest to the truth." Mr. Bentley then has, contrary to truth, represented... | |
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