Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.9

c6.9

We are living to-day in the midst of the discoveries and inventions of the last few years of the twentieth century, e.g., those described in Cressy's volume. To the moderns, therefore, the whole science of the Hindus exhibited here belongs to what may be truly called the pre-scientific epoch of the history of science. Its worth should, however, be estimated in the light of the parallel developments among their contemporaries, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Graeco-Romans, the Saracens, and the mediæval Europeans.