Alberuni's India. An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030 (1910)
Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048, Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., ltd. · leaf 299
height of Meru,there would be no change ofhorizon, and the same horizonwould be the equinox for allplaces on earth. On the words of Aryabhataas quoted by Balabhadra wemake the following remarks.Let A B be the globe of the earth ronnd the centreH. Further, A is a place on the earth in the 66th… … CHAPTER XXIIi. 245 the point A. This line lies in the plane of the horizonas far as the human eye reaches round the earth. We join the points A and H with each other,and draw the line H B C, so that it is met in C bythe line A C. Further, we let fall the perpendicularA T on H C. Now, it is evident…
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