(August 20, 2015 at 3:56 pm)Little Rik Wrote: Your deep ignorance is outstanding.
Well before the Latin and Greek era further east in the Indian subcontinent arts literature and science
were created.
systems of science whose antiquity baffled all power of astronomical calculation
William Cooke Taylor
Quote:W. C. Taylor, writing in the Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, said that India:
“possessed ... a language (Sanskrit), the parent of all those dialects that Europe has fondly called classical-the source alike of Greek flexibility and Roman strength. A philosophy, compared with which. in point of age, the lessons of Pythagoras are but of yesterday, and in point of daring speculation Plato's boldest efforts were tame and commonplace. A poetry more purely intellectual than any of those of which we had before any conception; and systems of science whose antiquity baffled all power of astronomical calculation. This literature, with all its colossal proportions, which can scarcely be described without the semblance of bombast and exaggeration claimed of course a place for itself-it stood alone, and it was able to stand alone.”
Indic Visions: In an Age of Science
By Varadaraja V. Raman