Talk:History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent/Archive 1

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Please consider moving this article to "Science and technology in ancient India" or "Science and technology in Ancient India". -- Brhaspati\^talk/_contribs 19:22, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

yes sure

Kindly see my message to you - in case, u move the article that would be fine. Otherwise I will do that tomorrow. ok .--Bhadani 19:36, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moved, as per discussion, and to match similarly named articles. --OpenToppedBus - Talk 10:26, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

"Introduction" section

There is no need for a section called "Inroduction" - the introduction should be before the first section. The material in "Introduction" is repeated in the subsections and, in my opinion, can be removed altogether, or at least greatly summarised. -Pgan002 09:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Theory of relativity in Ancient India

The article states that " Concepts of atom and theory of relativity were explicitly stated by an Indian philosopher around 600 BC". I have no doubt you are telling the truth, sir. Just be so kind and tell me the name of this illustrious man because his name was hidden from me by racist Europocentric history teachers.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.199.22.217 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Grant Duff identification

I have added a link to the "British historian Grant Duff", who I presume is James Cunninghame Grant Duff (1789-1858), author of History of the Mahrattas. If this is not correct, please remove the link. --SteveMcCluskey 22:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge?

This text was from the Sayana article

Sayana (सायण) (c. 1315-1387) was an important commentator on the Vedas.

He is claimed to have mentioned the speed of light c, in the following comment he wrote on verse 1.50 of the Rig Veda:

"Thus it is remembered: [O Sun] you who traverse 2202 yojanas in half a nimesa."

According to Kak these ancient units translate into a speed of 186,536 miles/second, a value amazingly close to the modern value of c of 186,282.397 miles/second.

Apparently[1] a similar comment about the speed of light was also made by Bhatta Bhaskara around the 10th century on the Taittiriya Brahmana.

S. Kak. "The Speed of Light and Purāṇic Cosmology". In T. R. N. Rao and S. Kak, Computing Science in Ancient India, pages 80–90. USL Press, Lafayette, 1998. Available as e-print physics/9804020 on the arXiv.

Fine arts and games and sports

Why are these topics included in a science and technology article?--Pericles of Athens^Talk 19:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)