Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific DevelopmentLongmans, Green and Company, 1918 - 82 pàgines |
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Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific ... Benoy Kumar Sarkar Visualització completa - 1918 |
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific ... Benoy Kumar Sarkar Visualització completa - 1918 |
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific ... Benoy Kumar Sarkar Visualització completa - 1918 |
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Pàgina 6 - 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 14 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Pàgina 43 - 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 73 - According to a second school (the SdmkJyd], life is neither a bio-mechanical force nor any mere mechanical motion resulting therefrom. It "is in reality a reflex activity, a resultant of the various concurrent activities of the sensori-motor, the emotional and the apperceptive reactions of the organism.
Pàgina 25 - 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 2 - ... 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 x - The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Pàgina 51 - 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 2 - pure" mathematics of the Hindus was, on the whole, not only in advance of that of the Greeks, but anticipated in some remarkable instances the European discoveries of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. That mathematics is the basis of the mathematical science known to modern mankind. 2. Like the other races, the Hindus also may be taken to have failed to make any epoch-making discoveries of fundamental "laws," planetary, inorganic, or organic, if judged by the generalizations of...
Pàgina 30 - 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 diffused. Anaxagoras and Empedocles, for example, taught that the moon shines by light borrowed from the sun, and were led to that opinion, not only from the phases of the moon, but from its...
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