"[…] whatever is closely connected with the ancient Indian religion must be considered as having sprung up among the Indian themselves, unless positive evidence of the strongest kind point to a contrary conclusion."
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German IndologistsHindu astronomyCompanions of the Order of the Indian EmpireGerman historians of mathematicsAcademic staff of the University of Calcutta
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Thibaut, G. ‘On the Sulvasutras’. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XLIV, (1875): pp. 227. in The Sulbasutras and the 'Pythagoras Theorem'
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George Thibaut
1848 – 1914
George Frederick William Thibaut (March 20, 1848 – 1914) was a German Indologist notable for his contributions to the understanding of ancient Indian mathematics and astronomy.
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