A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s1.4

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¹ *Vide*, for instance, G.R. Kaye: "After the time of Bhāskara (born A D. 1114), no Indian mathematical work of historical value or interest is known." (*Indian mathematics*, Calcutta, 1915, p. 24); A. B. Keith: "After Bhāskara, no progress can be recorded in Indian astronomy." (*A history of Indian literature*, Oxford, 1929, p. 523); A. A. Macdonell: "The last eminent Indian astronomer was Bhāskarācārya, born in A.D. 1114." (*A history of Sanskrit literature*, Indian rep., Delhi, 1962, p. 370); D. Arka Somayaji, "Bhāskara is the last name in the field. Barring a number of commentators, no name worthy of mention is there in India subsequent to Bhāskara." (*A critical study of the ancient Hindu astronomy*, Dharwar, 1971, p. 3). Standard historians of mathematics like Cantor, Cajori and D.E. Smith, too, hold the same view. The first Western historian of mathematics to take note of Whish's findings would appear to be A. P. Juschkewitsche in his *Geschichte der Mathematic Mittelalter*, (Leipzig, 1964), as pointed out to C. T. Rajagopal by D. T. Whiteside, the eminent Cambridge authority on Isacc Newton.