India, part 8: Jaipur: Jantar Mantar

India, part 8: Jaipur: Jantar Mantar
December, 2004
by Norman Koren

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Part 1: Introduction	\|	Part 2: Gujarat	\|	Part 3: Udaipur
Part 4: Jodhpur fort	\|	Part 5: Jodhpur rooftops	\|	Part 6: Jaipur: Palaces and Amber fort
Part 7: Jaipur streets	\|	Part 8: Jaipur: Jantar Mantar	\|	Part 9: Rankapur temple and sculptures

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The Jantar Mantar observatory, built between 1728 and 1734 by Maharaja Sawai Singh in the early eighteenth centure for astronomical/astrological observations, is one of the world's great sculpture gardens. But the sculptures are precision scientific instruments! The images below are somewhat repetitive, but I found the groupings of people fascinating.

Jaipur: Jantar Mantar observatory

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Norman Koren lives in Boulder, Colorado, founded Imatest LLC in 2004, previously worked on magnetic recording technology. He has been involved with photography since 1964.