Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.19
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.19
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The article (Chapter V) on ‘the Binomial Theorem’ was published in 1790 in Calcutta. Till then, and in British reference books like the *Encyclopaedia Britannica* well into the twentieth century, the discovery of this theorem has been credited to Newton.17 Some thirty years later, Burrow’s article was followed by another titled ‘Essay on the Binomial Theorem; as known to the Arabs’.18 This later article was a sequel to the first by R. Burrow, and it concluded: ‘It plainly appears, that whatever may have been the case in Europe, yet long before the time of Briggs the Arabians were acquainted with’ the Binomial Theorem.