Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.16

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2. Like the other races, the Hindus also may be taken to have failed to make any epoch-making discoveries of fundamental "laws," planetary, inorganic, or organic, if judged by the generalizations of to-day. But some of their investigations were solid achievements in positive knowledge, viz., in materia medica, therapeutics, anatomy, embryology, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, and descriptive zoology. And in these also, generally speaking, Hindu inquiries were not less, if not more definite, exact, and fruitful than the Greek and mediæval-European.