George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Introduction (1915)
“ The orientalists who exploited Indian history and literature about a century ago were not always perfect in their methods of investigation and consequently promulgated many errors. Gradually, however, sounder methods have obtained and we are now able to see the facts in more correct perspective. ”
George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Introduction (1915)
“ In the 16th century, A.D., Hindu tradition ascribes the invention of the nine figures with the device of places to make them suffice for all numbers 'to the beneficent Creator of the universe'; and this was accepted as evidence of the very great antiquity of the system! ”
George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Introduction (1915)
“ According to orthodox Hindu tradition the Sūrya Siddhānta, the most important Indian astronomical work, was composed over two million years ago! Bailly, towards the end of the eighteenth century, considered that Indian astronomy had been founded on accurate observations made thousands of years before the Christian era. Laplace, basing his arguments on figures given by Bailly considered that some 3,000 years B.C. the Indian astronomers had recorded actual observations of the planets correct to one second ”
