[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) › c20.2 # Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.2 Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.2 - **Language:** English ### [c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c20.2) HIPPOCRATES, the founder of Greek medicine, was unacquainted with anatomy and physiology. His ignorance was due to the superstitious respect which the Greeks paid to their dead.²⁹ But the fathers of Hindu medicine were remarkably accurate in some of their observations and descriptions. - [Previous: c19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c19.12) - [Next: c20.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c20.3) - [Up: c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c20.2) · Pramāṇa