Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c16.2

c16.2

Both in the East and the West chemistry was at first alchemy. It was principally a handmaid to the science or art of medicine, and subsidiarily allied to metallurgy and the industrial arts. Whatever be the worth of that chemistry according to the modern standard, the Hindu investigators could give points to their European peers. They were, besides, teachers of the Saracens and of the Chinese.