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Covering a span of nearly 5,000 years, the book seeks to offer a holistic account of the highly complex strands of Indian science, literature, and art. Beginning with a brief overview of Indian civilization, the author considers the status and achievements of biology, medicine, chemistry, metallurgy, mathematics, and physics in ancient and medieval India. And also, besides a discussion of the lyrical poetry of the Vedas, he finally comes to focus on India’s ...
Rabindranath Tagore had an abiding interest in the philosophical implications of modern science and had regular interactions with the leading scientists of his time.
By 1919 Albert Einstein had emerged in the wyes of the whole world as the new messiah of science who had dislodged the mighty Newton from his pedestal by daring to challenge the absolute character of space and time and their Euclidean geometry, and the very character of light as a wave.
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