Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.59
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.59
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c20.59
The ancients, also like the people of Asia, made use only of oxen in tillage. The Greeks who speak of Bacchus as the inventor of agriculture, say he was the first that brought oxen out of India into Europe.²⁴ We may infer from this that they considered the art of cultivating the ground, to have come from India.