[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c3.3 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c3.3 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c3.3 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3.3) “ Let us not superciliously dismiss these studies as ‘learned lumber.’ The Astronomy and Mathematics were not less advanced than those of Tycho Brahe, Cardan and Fermat; the anatomy was equal to that of Vesalius, the Hindu logic and methodology more advanced than that of Ramus, and equal on the whole to Bacon’s; the physico-chemical theories as to combustion, heat, chemical affinity, clearer, more rational, and more original than those of Van Helmont or Stahl; and the Grammar, whether of Sanskrit or Prākrit, the most scientific and comprehensive in the world before Bopp, Rask and Grimm.” - [Previous: v1.c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3.2) - [Next: v1.c3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3.4) - [Up: v1.c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c3.3) · Pramāṇa