Shashi Tharoor has a “review”:http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:7K321lEyndIJ:www.hinduonnet.com/mag/stories/2003072000120300.htm+The+things+Indians+knew+first&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 of the book “Lost Discoveries”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684837188/jksobservat-20 by Dick Teresi, which studies the ancient non-Western foundations of modern science. In this article Tharoor writes about the sciences in which our ancestors excelled. These include planetary astronomy, chemistry, physics, steel making, printing and paper making, and ship building.
[Ref: “The Hindu”:http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:7K321lEyndIJ:www.hinduonnet.com/mag/stories/2003072000120300.htm+The+things+Indians+knew+first&hl=en&ie=UTF-8]
Lost Discoveries
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