India’s past scientific and technological advances have been well documented, yet mainstream history of science is yet to take full notice of them. Besides, India’s scientific community remains largely unaware of India’s contributions to the field, rightly distrustful of exaggerated claims, but doing little to promote genuine research in Indian history of science. Using the best scholarship available in the field, this educational module offers an overview of scientific achievements in India from earliest times to the seventeenth century, with a focus on mathematics, astronomy and chemistry. It will also highlight some specific aspects of Indian scientific developments and their interaction with other cultures.
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First Dr. Govind Chandra Pande Memorial Lecture. India’s past scientific and technological advances have been well documented, even if mainstream history of science is yet to take full notice of it. What is generally overlooked, however, is the cultural framework within which those advances took place. Because Indian savants were steeped in specific cultural concepts involving a quest for infinity, the equivalence of microcosm and macrocosm, and a certain cosmic order, we find these concepts reflected in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and architecture, and giving Indian developments in these disciplines a specific stamp.
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History and Technology
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A response to an article by Meera Nanda claiming Chinese origins for the Pythagoras theorem and the decimal place-value system of numeral notation.
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