Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.47
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.47
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c9.47
That observations made in India, when all Europe was barbarous or uninhabited, and investigations into the most subtle effects of gravitation made in Europe, near five thousand years afterwards, should thus come in mutual support of one another, is perhaps the most striking example of the progress and vicissitude of science, which the history of mankind has yet exhibited.