Photos from India--Jantar Mantar pt 1

Pictures from the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, India. The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments built in the 18th century and the amazing thing is that the instruments are still accurate today! Though its mainly a tourist attraction now... and if you didn't know, it looks like an amusement park... just look at the first picuture... its a view of the the whole place.

What do you think is in common with the instrument above and below?

Well, both are acutally sundials! Yeap, the smaller one above has an accuracy of 20sec but the Maharaja "buay song" and decided to cut the accuracy to 2sec! So, he built a sundial 10 times bigger! And thus, the bigger sundial (Samrat Jantar) is the biggest sundial in the world.

This is the intricacy and accuracy of the astronomers, craftsmen & engineers of that time... all this carved into marble