Oriental Scenery/Part 5/Plates 19 and 20
Nos. XIX. and XX.
THE OBSERVATORY AT DELHI.
These plates contain views of the great dial, with many other mural instruments for astronomical purposes, situated at a short distance, southward from the walls of the city of Delhi.
Should it be thought these extraordinary works ought not to have been classed with the Antiquities of India, as it is believed by some that they were erected by Jaysigna, a Rajah of great reputation for his skill in the mathematical sciences, who lived in the seventeenth century, the Author hopes that the singularity, as well as the magnitude of such astronomical instruments, will be a sufficient apology for introducing them here.
A very minute account of these works is given in the fifth volume of the Asiatic Researches by Mr. Hunter.
The Observatory at Delhi.
The Observatory at Delhi.