Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.18

c6.18

4. Since the publication of Gibbon's monumental history, the historians of the sciences have given credit to the Saracens for their services in the development of European thought. Much of this credit, however, is really due to the Hindus. Saracen mathematics, chemistry, and medicine were mostly direct borrowings from Hindu masters. The Greek factor in Saracen culture is known to every modern scholar; the Hindu factor remains yet to be generally recognized. That recognition would at once establish India's contributions to Europe.