[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts Reprinted European reports: Brahmin astronomy, inoculation against smallpox, plastic surgery, ice-making, iron and steel smelting, drill plough, agriculture, paper. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [Dharampal](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dharampal) - **Extent:** 1,068 passages, 108,913 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Collected Writings vol. I, Mapusa: Other India Press 2000 (1st ed. Delhi: Impex India 1971); scan on… · In copyright (Dharampal †2006); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c1) — 9 parts - [c2 Indian Science and Technology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c2) — 12 parts - [c3 Making History](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c3) — 71 parts - [c4 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c4) — 16 parts - [c5 Acknowledgements](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c5) — 4 parts - [c6 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c6) — 18 parts - [c7 Part I: Science](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c7) - [c8 I. Bramin’s Observatory at Benares](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c8) — 19 parts - [c9 II. Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c9) — 224 parts - [c10 III. Hints Concerning the Observatory at Benares](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c10) — 25 parts - [c11 IV. On the Sixth Satellite of Saturn](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c11) — 16 parts - [c12 V. A Proof that the Hindoos had the Binomial Theorem](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c12) — 16 parts - [c13 VI. Hindu Algebra](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c13) — 83 parts - [c14 Part II: Technology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c14) - [c15 VII. Operation of Inoculation of the Smallpox as Performed in Bengall](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c15) — 10 parts - [c16 VIII. An Account of the Manner of Inoculating for the Smallpox in the East Indies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c16) — 36 parts - [c17 IX. The Method of Making the Best Mortar at Madrass in East India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c17) — 21 parts - [c18 X. The Process of Making Ice in the East Indies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c18) — 6 parts - [c19 XI. Uses of the Son and Manufacturing of Hindostan Paper](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19) — 7 parts - [c20 XII. Indian Agriculture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c20) — 94 parts - [c21 XIII. On the Drill Husbandry of Southern India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c21) — 13 parts - [c22 XIV. Iron Works at Ramanakapettah](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c22) — 15 parts - [c23 XV. The Mode of Manufacturing Iron in Central India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23) — 8 parts - [c24 XVI. Manufacture of Bar Iron in Southern India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c24) — 31 parts - [c25 XVII. Aspects of Technology in Western India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c25) — 46 parts - [c26 Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c26) — 18 parts - [c27 Biographical Notes on Authors](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c27) — 9 parts - [c28 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c28) — 23 parts - [c29 Dharampal: Life and Work](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29) — 15 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971) · Pramāṇa