Jai Singh II's monumental astronomical instruments (Jantar Mantar)
Instrumentos astronómicos monumentales de Jai Singh II (Jantar Mantar)
- Date
- 1728-1734 · confidence high
- Place
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Credited to
- Sawai Jai Singh II
- People
- 👤 Jai Singh II1688–1743
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Masonry observatories in Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Varanasi and Mathura, including the Samrat Yantra at Jaipur, a 27 m sundial accurate to about two seconds. They sought precision through scale rather than optics.
Jai Singh knew of the telescope but preferred large-scale naked-eye instruments, following the model of Ulugh Beg.
What it led to
- Zij-i Muhammad Shahi astronomical tables
- scientific heritage of Mughal and Rajput India