२२वा ] ज्योतिः शास्त्र इतकी भिन्न आहे कीं, अन्य राष्ट्रांकडून त्यांजला ज्ञानप्राप्ति झाल्याचें यत्किचित् देखील संभवत नाहीं. आणि ह्मणूनच मूलज्ञानसंपादनांत ते इतर राष्ट्राचे बिलकुल ऋणी नाहींत. मात्र, इतर राष्ट्रांशीं ( मागील पृष्टावरून पुढे चालू ) provement than implicitly copied the doctrines of their instructors." “ In addition to the points already mentioned, in which the Hindus have gone beyond the other ancient nations, Mr. Colebrooke mentions two in astronomy: one is in their notions regarding preces- sion of the equinoxes, in which they were more cor- rect than Ptolemy, and as much so as the Arabs, who did not attain to their degree of improvement till a later period; the other relates to the diurnal re- volution of the earth on its axis, which the Brahm- ans discuss in the fifth century, aud which although formerly suggested in fancient times by the Heracli- ns, had been long laid aside by the Greeks, and was never revised in Europe until the days of Copernicus. “ From what has been already said, it seems very improbable that the Indian Geometry and Arithmetic have been borrowed from the Greeks ( पुढे चालू ) "
