Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.14
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.14
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c13.14
No doubt then can be reasonably entertained, that we now possess the arithmetic and algebra of Bhascara, as composed and published by him in the middle of the twelfth century of the Christian era. The age of his precursors cannot be determined with equal precision. Let us proceed, however, to examine the evidence, such as we can at present collect, of their antiquity.