Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c14.2

c14.2

ASTRONOMICAL lore is probably as old as mankind. Elementary knowledge about the celestial bodies and meteorological phenomena is common to the races of antiquity, e.g., Chaldæans, Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus, and Greeks, as well as to all primitive races of men. That, however, is not to be regarded as forming the science of astronomy, unless the epoch of mere observation be lifted up to the level of an epoch of science.