Jantar Mantar
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Jantar Mantar
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A Jantar Mantar is an assembly of stone-built astronomical instruments, designed to be used with the naked eye. There were five Jantar Mantars in India. All were built at the command of the Rajah Jai Singh II, who had a keen interest in mathematics, architecture and astronomy. The largest example is the equinoctial sundial belonging to Jaipur's assembly of instruments, consisting of a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On either side of the gnomon is a q
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Astronomical observatories
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar_Mantar
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2024-03-02T18:43:17Z
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