Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts
Reprinted European reports: Brahmin astronomy, inoculation against smallpox, plastic surgery, ice-making, iron and steel smelting, drill plough, agriculture, paper.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Dharampal
- Extent
- 1,068 passages, 108,913 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Collected Writings vol. I, Mapusa: Other India Press 2000 (1st ed. Delhi: Impex India 1971); scan on… · In copyright (Dharampal †2006); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 9 parts
- c2 Indian Science and Technology — 12 parts
- c3 Making History — 71 parts
- c4 Contents — 16 parts
- c5 Acknowledgements — 4 parts
- c6 Introduction — 18 parts
- c7 Part I: Science
- c8 I. Bramin’s Observatory at Benares — 19 parts
- c9 II. Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins — 224 parts
- c10 III. Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares — 25 parts
- c11 IV. On the Sixth Satellite of Saturn — 16 parts
- c12 V. A Proof that the Hindoos had the Binomial Theorem — 16 parts
- c13 VI. Hindu Algebra — 83 parts
- c14 Part II: Technology
- c15 VII. Operation of Inoculation of the Smallpox as Performed in Bengall — 10 parts
- c16 VIII. An Account of the Manner of Inoculating for the Smallpox in the East Indies — 36 parts
- c17 IX. The Method of Making the Best Mortar at Madrass in East India — 21 parts
- c18 X. The Process of Making Ice in the East Indies — 6 parts
- c19 XI. Uses of the Son and Manufacturing of Hindostan Paper — 7 parts
- c20 XII. Indian Agriculture — 94 parts
- c21 XIII. On the Drill Husbandry of Southern India — 13 parts
- c22 XIV. Iron Works at Ramanakapettah — 15 parts
- c23 XV. The Mode of Manufacturing Iron in Central India — 8 parts
- c24 XVI. Manufacture of Bar Iron in Southern India — 31 parts
- c25 XVII. Aspects of Technology in Western India — 46 parts
- c26 Sources — 18 parts
- c27 Biographical Notes on Authors — 9 parts
- c28 Index — 23 parts
- c29 Dharampal: Life and Work — 15 parts