Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.9
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.9
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The choice of this passage during the 1850s by the *Encyclopaedia Britannica* was in keeping with the sentiments of the period. But the 24 page unsigned article in the *Edinburgh Review* (Nov. 1817), from which this sceptical passage is taken, had also said many other things. Earlier in the article, Playfair observed: