Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.72
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.72
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c13.72
If, however, it be insisted, that a hint or suggestion, the seed of their knowledge, may have reached the Hindu mathematicians immediately from the Greeks of Alexandria, or mediately through those of Bactria, it must at the same time be confessed, that a slender germ grew and fructified rapidly, and soon attained an approved state of maturity in Indian soil.