india in the making of europe. focus on the practical not on spiritual nor on straight exploitation...
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India in the Making of Europe
Focus on the Practical
Not on Spiritual Nor on straight exploitation and
concentration of Wealth in Britain But on the Application in Europe of
Indian Mathematics, Science, technology and Socio-Political Ideas.
Geographical Definitions of India and Europe
India Easy Europe More Difficult
‘Europe’ as Cultural Entity
Created by Islam. Byzantium and Western EuropeTwo largest fragments Fancy Name For Christendom
Three Gifts
Amir Khusro Chess Panchatantra (Fables) (Arabic)Numbers
Mathematics
Greek Disaster Mesopotamian and Egyptian superior
numbers, possibility of fractions and irrationals.
Platonic (Euclidian) geometry semi-religious, hostility to empiricism.
Cult of “Proof” axioms, deduction. Indian drew on Greek but also on
Mesopotamian “position.”
Indian (Arabic) Numbers
Indian invention of zero Al Khwarizim,780-850 Algebra Egypto-Greek Geometry, Arabic Algebra Aral Sea, Uzbekistan Fibonacci Christian Resistance to “Infidel” numbers
Indian Astronomy, Trigonometry Ptolemy 2nd Century ? Aryabhatta 3rd Century Bhaskara (I) 6th Century Origin of “sine” Sanskrit Jya-ardha (Chord half) Jya Arabic jiba/jaib “bay” Latin sinus
Indian Mathematical Tradition Bhaskara II 12th Century Decline After Muslim Conquest Kerala School Madhava Infinite Series Series of Inverse tangent, Power series of sine and cosine Suspicion of “proof”
Diffusion, Independent invention Complexity, Arbitrary nature,
Transmission from Cochin to Rome
Jesuit College in Cochin 1552 Sanskrit, Malayalam Christopher Clavius 1537-1610 Reformed mathematics Problems with Calendar Reform Navigation Vasco da Gama Mercator Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
European mathematical breakthroughs of 17th century
Descartes, Co-ordinate geometry Fermat, Diophantos Infinite Series Bhaskara Calculus, Newton, Leibniz
Technology
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Sun Kings
Akbar, (1542-1605) Mogul Louis XIV (1638-1715) Cardinal Mazarin 1602-1661
Politics 2 Caste and Race
Vrna Colour François Bernier, John Locke “New Division of the Earth by the
different species or races that inhabit it” 1684 Code Noir 1685
Politics 3 Religious Toleration
François Bernier, John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration 1689 Pierre Bayle India/China
Politics 3 Religious Toleration
François Bernier John Locke Pierre Bayle