[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918) › c16.5 # Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c16.5 Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c16.5 - **Language:** English ### [c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16.5) The Hindu chemical investigators of the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. (the age of Gupta-Vikramadityan Renaissance) were far in advance of Roger Bacon (thirteenth century). In fact, they anticipated by one millennium the work of Paracelsus (sixteenth century) and Libavius (seventeenth century). "The physico-chemical theories as to combustion, heat, chemical affinity were clearer, more rational, and more original than those of Van Helmont or Stahl." (Seal.)⁴⁴ - [Previous: c16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16.4) - [Next: c16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16.6) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c16.5) · Pramāṇa