Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s2.25

c6.s2.25

The above quoted British authority however did not imply that the Indian practice was based on a knowledge ‘of the theory of his operations’ by the Indian manufacturer. He felt it to be impossible ‘that the process was discovered by any scientific induction, for the theory of it can only be explained by the lights of modern chemistry.’⁴² And feeling that ‘all speculation upon the origin of the discovery seems useless’, he proceeded to deal with the more practical matters.