Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.4
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.4
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The intellectual basis of the contempt and indifference which began to grow around the close of the eighteenth century, is perhaps best illustrated by the article on ‘Algebra’ in the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*, in its 8th edition (1850). Discussing Indian Algebra, it referred to a review by Prof John Playfair, of Colebrooke’s work on Indian Algebra, and observed: