Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.7

c6.7

Positive Science is but three hundred years old. It is necessary to remember this picture of the intellectual condition of Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century in every historical survey of the "exact" sciences (whether deductive-mathematical or inductive-physical), as well as in every comparative estimate of the credit for their growth and development due to the different nations of the world.