सिद्धान्तदर्पण (महामहोपाध्याय सामन्त चन्द्रशेखर सिंह - नग्न-नेत्र खगोल वेध एवं गणित महाकोश)

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cannot suppose that they could be so ignorant as
not to see this simple deduction. The late Pandit
Bapudeva Sastri gave other arguments in support
of this doctrine of the ancient astronomers (See his
pamphlet Bhubhrama-Vichara), though I am
inlcined to think that the Sastri went rather too far
in drawing the inference that our astronomers
supposed the earth to be a planet of the Sun.
This system, formulated a new by our author,
forcibly reminds one of Tycho Brahe, and bearing
in mind Chandrasekhara's life, we may regard him
as the veritable Tycho of India. Like Tycho our
author belongs to a noble family, which had for a
series of years claimed independence. Tycho's early
education was in Latin, and what Latin is to Europe,
Sanskrit is to India. Young Chandrasekhara was
early acquainted with the sacred lore of Sanskrit.
His knowledge was so far advanced as to enable
him to compose verses in it, as Tycho could in Latin.
Tycho had been destined ot lead a soldier's life, but
his uncle who adopted him made him study law.
While he was so engaged, his attention was first
drawn to astronomy by the prediction of a solar
eclipse in 1560 A.D. Like him Chandrasekhara
received his education from his, uncle, and the same
search after the unknown led our Indian Tycho to
penetrate the mysterious destinies of men with the
help of astrology. It is said that all sciences had
their origin in wonder, and it is preeminently true
of astronomy. Nothing but star-gazing could have
excited the simple yet noble utterances of the Vedic
Rishis, and star-gazing has given birth to a
Hipparchus and a Galileo, and may we add, to the
Tycho of Europe and the Tycho of India ? The
European Tycho had Copernicus before him and