Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- 23 Middle East
- 24 India
- 25 Maghreb of North Africa
- 26 Sub-Saharan Africa
- 27 Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: A Commentary
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- Index
24 - India
from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- 23 Middle East
- 24 India
- 25 Maghreb of North Africa
- 26 Sub-Saharan Africa
- 27 Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: A Commentary
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- Index
Summary
Indian society, from time immemorial, has nurtured a thinking civilization. It never lived an isolated existence and never displayed xenophobic tendencies until recently. Techno-scientific tradition in India has largely been a synthetic tradition, continuously evolving as a result of each politico-cultural interaction with the outside world and social change within the region. In pre-modern times, the Indian subcontinent was known for its contribution to astronomy, medicine, and mathematics. But it was during the post-Renaissance epoch (that of Descartes and Newton) that Europe began to outdistance all other culture-areas.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 455 - 475Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020