Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c3.2

c3.2

It has been sought to present a comprehensive, though very brief account of the entire scientific work of ancient and mediæval India in the perspective of developments in other lands. From the standpoint of modern science a great part of all that is described here is too elementary to have more than an anthropological interest. If, however, the facts of Hindu and Chinese science were made available in more extensive volumes than has yet been done, the students of comparative culture-history would find that the tendencies of the Oriental mind have not been essentially distinct from those of the Occidental.