Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.51

c13.51

The first is the demonstration of the noted proposition of Pythagoras, concerning the square of the base of a rectangular triangle, equal to the squares of the two legs containing a rightangle. The demonstration is given two ways in Bhascara's Algebra, (Vija-ganita § 146). The first of them is the same which is delivered by Wallis in his treatise on angular sections, (Ch.6.) and, as far as appears, then given for the first time.⁸²