Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.8

c6.8

Hindu investigations in exact science, as briefly summarized here, come down to about 1200 A.D. Strictly speaking, they cover the period from the "Atharva Veda" (*c* 800 B.C.), one of the Hindu Scriptures, to Bhaskaracharya (*c* 1150), the mathematician; or rather to the middle of the fourteenth century, represented by Madhavacharya, the compiler of "The Sixteen Systems of Philosophy" (1331), Gunaratna (1350), the logician, "Rasa-ratna-samuchchaya," the work on chemistry, and Madanapala, author of the "Materia Medica" (1374) named after himself.