"‘These operations are all founded on a very distinct conception of what happens in the case of an eclipse, and on the knowledge of this theorem, that, in a right-angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides. It is curious to find the theorem of PYTHAGORAS in India, where, for aught we know, it may have been discovered, and from whence that philosopher may have derived some of the solid, as well as the visionary speculations, with which he delighted to instruct or amuse his disciples.’"
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Playfair, John. ‘Remarks on the astronomy of the Brahmins’. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. II. (1790): pp.135-192. quoted from Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
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