Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.3
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.3
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While there was certainly no dearth of historical material and scholarly books as far as Chinese science and technology were concerned—largely due to the work of Dr Joseph Needham, reflected in his multi-volumed *Science and Civilisation in China*—in contrast, scholarly work on Indian science and technology seemed to be almost non-existent. What was available seemed rudimentary, poor, unimaginative, wooden, more filled with philosophy and legend than fact.