Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c28: Index

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c28

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Index

c28.1

Abulfaraj 130 Abulwafa, Muhammed 142 Ackbar (Akbar), Emperor 43 agriculture 180-208 Alexander the Great 100 algebra 121-146 Alhazan 108 Almast, S.C. 33n Angrey, Admiral Kanhoji viii Apollonius 104 Archimedes 77, 87, 104 Archimedes 140 Aryabhatta 28, 128-130, 146 astronomy 39-112 Ayeen Akbery 61n, 87

c28.2

Bacon 202 Bailly, M.27, 50, 57, 58, 64, 69, 70, 71, 74, 92n Bailly, Sylvian 96 Banks, Sir Joseph 19, 252n bar iron, manufacture of, 241-251 Barker, Sir Robert 6, 8, 9, 19, 39, 171 Ben Musa, Muhammed 142, 143 Bentinck, William 29 Bentley 127 Bergman 254 Berosus 98 Bhascara 28, Chap VI passim Bickerammjeet 103 Black, Joseph 19 n Bonacci, Leonardo 133 Brahma(e)gupta 28, chap VI passim Briggs 12-13, 118 British Museum ix Brouckner 139, 140 Burrow, Reuben 11-12, 94, 113

c28.3

Call, John 43 Campbell, A. 9, 26 Campbell, Captain J 241 Campbell, Captain J. 241 Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel Archibald 40 Carana cutahala 123 Cassini 49, 53, 56, 65, 80, 81 Catori 100 caute 257 Chaturveda Prithudaca Swami 125 Chirmirs 195 Chiron 99 cinnabar 254 Clive, Robert viii Colebrooke, H.T. 12, 13n, 121 Copernicus 48 copper plates 253 cotton, dyeing of, 252 Coult, Dr. Oliver 149 Coult, Ro. 149 Cuvier 4

c28.4

D'Alembert 96 dammer 258 Davis, S. 13 De Burgo, Lucas 13 De L'Isle 56, 57 De La Caille 54, 57, 69, 70, 88, 105 De La Grange 4, 62, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 89 De La Lande 74 De La Place 67, 90 de Meziriac, Bachet 138 Delambre 27 Descartes 95 Desgauliers, General 47 Dharampal i-xv passim Digges 105 Diophantus 13n 101, 104, Chap. VI passim Dollond 110 drill plough 203-208 Du Champ, Fr. 56, 60n, 76

c28.5

East India Company vii-ix, xi, 40 Elphinstone, 199n Encyclopaedia Britannica 3, 5, 12, 27, 28

c28.6

Euclid 104, 140 Euler 96

c28.7

Faraday 20n Ferguson, Prof. Adam xi Fermat 139 Forbes, Capt. 239 Franklin, Major James 213 Fraser 44

c28.8

Ganita caumudi 124 geometry 113-120 Gilder, Dr. 187 Goladhyaya 123n

c28.9

Halcott, Captain Thos 203 Hastings, Warren 11 Heath, J.M. 20n, 21-22 Herbert, J.D. 24 Heyne, Dr Benjamin 209 Holwell, J.Z. 15, 17, 151 Homo Faber i-ii Hulagu 48 Hunter, Dr William 126 Hunter, William 7 Hutton, Dr. 13

c28.10

Ice, method of making 171-174 Indian Mutiny vii iron, manufacture of 109-251 Ironside, Lt. Col. 175

c28.11

Jayasimha (Jaisingh), Raja of Ambhere 7, 8 Joseph, Needham i

c28.12

Kepler, Johannes 48, 85, 86 kibbutzim iv Kirkpatrick, Dr. 164 Kyd, Col. 14

c28.13

La Grange 96, 135, 140 La Loubere 49 Lacshmidasa 126 Laplace 27 Le Gentil 5, 49, 51, 62, 76, 79, 80, 116 Leslie, Prof. 27 Lilavati 115, Chap 6 passim Locatelli, Joseph 2

c28.14

Macaulay 29-31 Madrass mortar 167-170 Man Mandir 6, 8 Manson, J. 24 Marx, Karl xii Maskelyne 105 Mawnsingh (Mansingh), Rajah 7, 47 Mayer 56, 57, 66, 68, 88 Metcalfe, Thomas xii Metius 88 Mheta, Bappoo 187n Mill, James 31 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 2n

c28.15

Nayrs 195 Nehru, Jawaharlal vi Newton, Sir Isaac 12, 48, 96, 116

c28.16

Paciolo 133, 134 Padmanabha 124-25 paper, manufacture of 175-179 Pascal 118 Patriotic & People-Oriented Science & Technology Group (PPST) ii-iii Pearse, Col. T.D. 9, 10-11, 47, 107-110 Pearson, George 26n Pigg, Thomas 239 Playfair, Prof John 3-4, 1-0, 27, 48 Presgrave, Capt. 236 Prinsep, T. 9 Ptolemy 48, 64, 65, 71, 79, 84, 85, 100 Pulisa 128 Pyke, Isaac 167 Pythagoras 98, 137

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Ranade, Mahadeva Govind 23, 26 Robinson, Captain A. 186

c28.18

Sanskrit 39 Schultz, Dr. 151 Scott, Dr Helenus 14, 19, 252n Selin, Helaine iv Siddhanta-Siromani 123 Simpson 96 Sing, Bauldey 197n smallpox, inoculation for 149-166 smelting furnaces of Malabar 257-258 Solvyns, Francois Baltazar 26 Sridhara 124-25 Stodart 20 n Strachey, Edward 13 surgery of eye 255