Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.3
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.3
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c13.3
The history of sciences, if it want the prepossessing attractions of political history and narration of events, is nevertheless not wholly devoid of interest and instruction. A laudable curiosity prompts to inquire the sources of knowledge; and a review of its progress furnishes suggestions tending to promote the same or some kindred study. We would know the people and the names at least of the individuals, to whom we owe particular discoveries and successive steps in the advancement of knowledge. If no more be obtained by the research, still the inquiry has not been wasted, which points aright the gratitude of mankind.