The Observatory at Jaipur (In Our Time)
1734 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Observatory in Jaipur with its vast and beautiful instruments built to make astronomical measurements of the stars. Commissioned in the early 18th century by the Rajput prince and child prodigy, Jai Singh, it was at the centre of attempts to marry hundreds of years of Indian and Persian astronomical tradition. The Observat
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- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)