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Originally Posted by biggles69
... (Indian astronomy was already highly developed when the English were just a bunch of feudal peasants.)
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-- Not forgetting, either, Indian mathematics, (it was well-developed even before the Normans bequeathed the Feudal System to the English.), wch. gave us the ZERO - 0., Our present days' numerals arrived in the Occident, eventually,
via Middle Eastern astrologers, astronomers, mathematicians and similar others - hence our mis-calling them
'Arabic numerals.'.
- True, the Indians may have enjoyed an higher civilisation then - but then civilisation - like Omar Khayyam's '
Finger.' - moves on and on ... .