History of Science and Technology in Ancient India
Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1991
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ISBN : 9780836419351
Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher :
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1991
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ISBN : 9780836419351
Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Science
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Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyay
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Science
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Author : Bishwa Nath Mukherjee
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Astronomy
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Author : C. K. Raju
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Calculus
ISBN : 9788131708712
The Volume Examines, In Depth, The Implications Of Indian History And Philosophy For Contemporary Mathematics And Science. The Conclusions Challenge Current Formal Mathematics And Its Basis In The Western Dogma That Deduction Is Infallible (Or That It Is Less Fallible Than Induction). The Development Of The Calculus In India, Over A Thousand Years, Is Exhaustively Documented In This Volume, Along With Novel Insights, And Is Related To The Key Sources Of Wealth-Monsoon-Dependent Agriculture And Navigation Required For Overseas Trade - And The Corresponding Requirement Of Timekeeping. Refecting The Usual Double Standard Of Evidence Used To Construct Eurocentric History, A Single, New Standard Of Evidence For Transmissions Is Proposed. Using This, It Is Pointed Out That Jesuits In Cochin, Following The Toledo Model Of Translation, Had Long-Term Opportunity To Transmit Indian Calculus Texts To Europe. The European Navigational Problem Of Determining Latitude, Longitude, And Loxodromes, And The 1582 Gregorian Calendar-Reform, Provided Ample Motivation. The Mathematics In These Earlier Indian Texts Suddenly Starts Appearing In European Works From The Mid-16Th Century Onwards, Providing Compelling Circumstantial Evidence. While The Calculus In India Had Valid Pramana, This Differed From Western Notions Of Proof, And The Indian (Algorismus) Notion Of Number Differed From The European (Abacus) Notion. Hence, Like Their Earlier Difficulties With The Algorismus, Europeans Had Difficulties In Understanding The Calculus, Which, Like Computer Technology, Enhanced The Ability To Calculate, Albeit In A Way Regarded As Epistemologically Insecure. Present-Day Difficulties In Learning Mathematics Are Related, Via Phylogeny Is Ontogeny , To These Historical Difficulties In Assimilating Imported Mathematics. An Appendix Takes Up Further Contemporary Implications Of The New Philosophy Of Mathematics For The Extension Of The Calculus, Which Is Needed To Handle The Infinities Arising In The Study Of Shock Waves And The Renormalization Problem Of Quantum Field Theory.
Author : John Levi Martin
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199773319
Why questions? What explanations? -- Causality and persons -- Authority and experience -- The grid of perception -- Action in and on a world -- A social aesthetics -- Valence and habit -- Fields and games -- Explanations explained.
Author : Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9788131708514
The Volume Science, Technology, Imperialism And War Interlinks The Concerned Themes To Present A Coherent Analyssis Of The Development Of Related Ideas And Institutions In The Subcontinent. The Chapters On Science, Therefore, Look At The Cognitive And Socio-Historical Aspects Of Science, Relating The Same With The Establishment And Spread Of Imperialism In India; With Its Application To Develop Technologies; And With The Use Of Such Technologies To Fund The Major Preoccupation Of Imperialism - War. Likewise, The Section On Technology Leads The Reader To A Search For Its Very Probable Links With Imperialism And War. The Section On Imperialism Offers Four Themes In The Edited Volume: The First One Deals With Its Theories; The Second With Its Link With Colonialism; And The Third And The Fourth Follow Its Manifestation In The Russian And British Adventures-Chiefly In Central Asia And India. The Depecdence Of Imperialism On War Looms Large. War, The Concluding Theme Of This Exercise, Is The Saturation Point Of Himan Efforts To Subjugate And Dominate Others. The Scholars Writing In This Section Critically Survey The Various Kinds Of War-Conventional, Linited And Nuclear-And A Detailed And Insightful Analysis Of The Cold War By The Editor Completes The Picture. This Volume Will Prove Invaluable To Scholars And Students Of South Asian Studies, History, Political Science And International Relations, And Defence Studies Alike.
Author : Pushpa M. Bhargava
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788173714351
This Book Is The First Comprehensive, Authoritative And Highly Readable Account Of Science And Technology In Independent India.