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Write brief essay on Alberuni on science in India
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Alberuni (973–1048 CE), the Central Asian polymath who accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni's court and later composed the Kitab-al-Hind, was the earliest outsider to attempt a systematic, text-based survey of Indian scientific knowledge rather than a traveller's impressionistic account. Trained in Greek astronomy and mathematics and having taught himself Sanskrit specifically to read the siddhantic literature…
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- Medicine
- Alberuni's Comparative Method
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