"The Encyclopaedia of Diderot likewise suggested, in the article on India, that the"sciences may be more ancient in In…"

"Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India ce…"

"INDIA'S work in science is both very old and very young: young as an independent and secular pursuit, old as a subsid…"

"Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which o…"

"The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest, and that from which the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and even the…"

"To make these complex calculations the Hindus developed a system of mathematics superior, in everything except geomet…"

"The decimal system was known to Aryabhata and Brahmagupta long before its appearance in the writings of the Arabs and…"

"Algebra was developed in apparent independence by both the Hindus and the Greeks; but our adoption of its Arabic name…"

"The Hindus were not so successful in geometry. In the measurement and construction of altars the priests formulated t…"

"The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus some 4500 years before vary not even a single minute from the modern…"