Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c14.13

c14.13

A certain amount of foreign help may have given an impetus to the science in India. But the loan was thoroughly Hinduized. According to Whitney,³ the Indians assimilated the Greek astronomy by (1) The substitution of sines for chords, and
(2) The general substitution of an arithmetical for a geometrical form.