[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) › v2.c35.3 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c35.3 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c35.3 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c35.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35.3) The Doctrine of Scientific Method :—A study of the Hindu Methodology of Science is absolutely essential to a right understanding of Hindu positive Science, its strength and its weakness, its range and its limitations. Apart from this rigorous Scientific Method, Hindu Chemistry, such as it is, would be all practical recipe, or all unverified speculation. This, however, would be a very inadequate and indeed erroneous view of this early achievement of the human mind. That the whole movement was genuinely and positively scientific, though arrested at an early stage, will appear from the following brief synopsis of the Hindu Methodology of Science. - [Previous: v2.c35.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35.1) - [Next: v2.c35.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35.4) - [Up: v2.c35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c35.3) · Pramāṇa