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1724 AD

Jantar Mantar

A magical, mystical thing.
Actually, "Instrument" & "Formula";
observatories built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh.

Of his birth there isn't much to be said,
but that Newton's Principia was just about being read, and
Galileo Galilei wouldn't have been more than... hundred.

Influenced by the Greeks, Arabs and the Vedas
He built many fine observatories at Delhi, Ujjain, Jaipur,
Benares and Mathura.

Incredible mason work, bricks of red and yellow, steps, gates,
graduations and markings - all made by hardworking labor fellows,
guided by an astronomer king.

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1997 AD
A woman of the lens, a photographer of repute
sharing in color, in textures intense,
a feeling, a sense, a visual encounter.

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