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Art. VII.—Note on the supposed Discovery of the Principle of the Differential Calculus by an Indian Astronomer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

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In the number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal last received, No. III., of 1858, is a short article by Bapu Deva Shastri, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Government College of Benares, in which he has undertaken to show, that Bháskaráchárya, an astronomer who flourished at Ujjayin in the twelfth century, was fully acquainted with the principle of the Differential Calculus, one of the most important discoveries of the last century in Europe.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1860

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