Sawai Jai Singh II (3 November 1688 – 21 September 1743), was the 29th Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber, who later founded the fortified city of Jaipur and made it his capital. He became the ruler of Amber at the age of 11, after the untimely death of his father Mirza Raja Bishan Singh on 31 December 1699.

2024年7月23日 · Raja Sawai Jai Singh of Amber was the most notable Rajput king of the 18th century (1681-1743). A notable statesman, legislator, and reformer, he was. In an era when Indians were ignorant of scientific advancement, he excelled best as a man of science.

In the early 1700s, when Jai Singh conceived of his ambitious observatory project, the telescope had been in use by astronomers in Europe for over 100 years. Why then, did this highly educated ruler, who knew of the telescope and it’s applications in European astronomy, choose naked eye observation as the basis for his observatories?

Sawai Jai Singh II, the remarkable Monarch of Jaipur, was a mathematician, an astronomer, and a town planner par excellence. He set up the famous observatories known as Jantar Mantars and built the city of Jaipur.

Sawai Jai Singh, the statesman astronomer of 18th century India, designed instruments, built observatories, prepared Zīj, and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe. His high-precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles with accuracies of ± 2 second, and ±1’ of arc respectively.

Sawai Jai Singh was a Rajput ruler of Amber, which is later known as Jaipur. He was also born in Amber on 3rd November 1688 and at the age of 11, he became the king of Amber after his father’s death.

2020年4月29日 · The Jaipur Observatory or ‘Jantar Mantar’, built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II (r. 1686 – 1743) between 1724 and 1727, is a collection of 20 large instruments that calculate the position and movement of celestial bodies with the naked eye.

2024年2月14日 · If you have ever been to Jaipur and haven’t yet come across the name of Sawai Jai Singh II, a prominent king of Jaipur, this blog will provide you with all the information you need to know about him. Sawai Jai Singh II was born in 1688 to …

2024年12月10日 · Jantar Mantar observatory, built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, was a focal point of the new capital, Jaipur. He built Jaipur, underlining the link between scientific capacities, urban planning and social control.

2016年12月24日 · Rājā Sawāʾi Jai Singh II built the largest and fairly accurate masonry astronomical instruments ever constructed in India; he was also influential in introducing early modern European astronomical sciences to the Indian subcontinent.