Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific DevelopmentLongmans, Green and Company, 1918 - 82 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8 - It is remarkable to what extent Indian mathematics enters into the science of our time. Both the form and the spirit of the arithmetic and algebra of modern times are essentially Indian and not Grecian.
Pàgina 16 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Pàgina 2 - No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars.
Pàgina 45 - AD 400 as a mean date — and it certainly is not far from the truth — it opens our eyes to an unsuspected state of affairs to find the Hindus at that age capable of forging a bar of iron larger than any that have been forged even in Europe up to a very late date, and not frequently even now.
Pàgina 21 - To conceive position in space, Vachaspati takes three axes, one proceeding from the point of sunrise in the horizon to that of sunset, on any particular day (roughly speaking, from the east to the west) ; a second bisecting this line at right angles on the horizontal plane (roughly speaking, from the north to the south) ; and the third proceeding from the point of their section up to the meridian position of the sun on that day (roughly speaking, up and down). The position of any point in space,...
Pàgina 4 - ... deduced the doctrine of Four Elements, and other dogmas, by oppositions of the same kind. The physical speculator of the present day will learn without surprise, that such a mode of discussion as this, led to no truths of real or permanent value. The whole mass of the Greek philosophy, therefore, shrinks into an almost imperceptible compass, when viewed with reference to the progress of physical knowledge.
Pàgina 32 - ... of body, in the heavens and on the earth, prevented all intercourse between the astronomer and the naturalist, and all transference of the maxims of the one to the speculations of the other. Though, on account of this inattention to experiment, nothing like the true system of natural philosophy was known to the ancients, there are, nevertheless, to be found in their writings many brilliant conceptions, several fortunate conjectures, and gleams of the light which was afterwards to be so generally...
Pàgina 27 - Archimedean theorem, that, when a solid body is immersed in a liquid it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces, or to the weight of its own bulk of the liquid.
Pàgina 53 - Salya is the first and best of the medical sciences ; less liable than any other to the fallacies of conjectural and inferential practice ; pure in itself ; perpetual in its applicability ; the worthy produce of heaven, and certain source of fame.
Pàgina 21 - ... to that of sunset, on any particular day (roughly speaking, from the east to the west) ; a second bisecting this line at right angles on the horizontal plane (roughly speaking, from the north to the south) ; and the third proceeding from the point of their section up to the meridian position of the sun on that day (roughly speaking, up and down). The position of any point in space, relatively to another point, may now be given by measuring distances along these three directions, ie by arranging...
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