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- [1820s?] (Creation)
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1 sheet.
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John Bentley's MSS came into the possession of William Hodge Mill after his death.
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Sold to Trinity, along with Bentley's MSS and his collection of Sanskrit MSS, by W. H. Mill's son in law Benjamin Webb in 1858.
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'Plate III. Positions of the Colures, Months, Seasons, &c, with respect to the Stars or fixed Lunar Asterisms, at the Autummnal Equinox in the year 945 BC, the Epoch of Churning the Oceans, or War between the Gods and the Giants'.
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See O.11.a.2/37-40 for letters etc relating to Trinity's acquisition of Bentley's papers.
Add.MS.a/617: Papers of John Bentley relating to Hindu astronomy.
Publication note
Bentley, A historical view of the Hindu astronomy: from the earliest dawn of that science in India to the present time. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1825. There is a copy in Trinity Library: Grylls 5.69.
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- Bentley, John (c 1756-1823), astronomer (Subject)