"In a 1581 letter, Ricci explicitly acknowledged that he was trying to understand local methods of timekeeping from an intelligent Brahmin or an honest Moor."
— Matteo Ricci

January 1, 1970

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quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189