New Discoveries of Astronomical Science in Madras Presidency during Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

The foundation of modern science in India was laid by the Europeans. They introduced the scientific knowledge of the west and brought contemporary science to India. This changed the situation in India and led to an intellectual awakening particularly from the nineteenth century. The British rule in particular marked the beginning of a scientific revival in India.

The Madras observatory participated in observations and discovery of new planets, minor planets and comets especially when such are invisible to European astronomers. Researches upon the variable stars, several new ones having been discovered, the usual attention to all casual phenomena, such as eclipses, transits, occultation’s, etc. These were the eclipses that established the foundations of astrophysics and especially of solar physics. In these observations the Madras observatory’s contributions were most significant.

Thus the observatory has rendered valuable services to the Growth of Astronomical Sciences. Its work in various discoveries was in numerable. It can also be said that the growth of this science was at peak of new discoveries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

The foundation of modern science in India was laid by the Europeans. They introduced the scientific knowledge of the west and brought contemporary science to India. This changed the situation in India and led to an intellectual awakening particularly from the nineteenth century. The British rule in particular marked the beginning of a scientific revival in India.

The Madras observatory participated in observations and discovery of new planets, minor planets and comets especially when such are invisible to European astronomers. Researches upon the variable stars, several new ones having been discovered, the usual attention to all casual phenomena, such as eclipses, transits, occultation’s, etc. These were the eclipses that established the foundations of astrophysics and especially of solar physics. In these observations the Madras observatory’s contributions were most significant.

Thus the observatory has rendered valuable services to the Growth of Astronomical Sciences. Its work in various discoveries was in numerable. It can also be said that the growth of this science was at peak of new discoveries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.