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Indian National Science Academy (2001), Pursuit and promotion of science: The Indian Experience, Indian National Science Academy, Presenting Indian S&T Heritage in Science Museums, Propagation : a Journal of science communication Vol 1, NO.1, January 2010, National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, India, by S.M Khened, . Presenting Indian S ...
However, according to former Indian science and technology minister Kapil Sibal, India is lagging in science and technology compared to developed countries. [4] India has only 140 researchers per 1,000,000 population, compared to 4,651 in the United States. [4] India invested US$3.7 billion in science and technology in 2002–2003. [5]
It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Microsoft India Development Center at HITEC City in India. [268] [269] Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language. Its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science.
Timeline of Indian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in the subcontinent historically referred to as India and the modern Indian state.. The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories: architecture, astronomy, cartography, metallurgy, logic, mathematics, metrology, mineralogy, automobile engineering, information technology, communications, space ...
The field has a long history in India that goes back to the late 1970s, with the works of Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Irfan Habib, J.P.S. Uberoi, [1] [2] Ashis Nandy, [3] [4] Vandana Shiva, [5] Claude Alvares [6] [7] and Shiv Visvanathan [8] [9] However, there is a first generation of scholars from the 1970s who looked at science and technology (and not from the purview of post-Kuhnian STS ...
Conceptual volumes in two parts on Science, Philosophy and Culture edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar; Volume 1. The Dawn and Development of Indian Civilization. Part 1. The Dawn of Indian civilization, edited by Govind Chandra Pande Part 2. Life, thought and culture in India (from c. 600 BC to c. AD 300) edited by Govind Chandra ...
The Indian scholar Mir Muhammad Hussain had travelled to England in 1774 to study Western science and, on his return to India in 1777, he wrote a Persian treatise on astronomy. He wrote about the heliocentric model, and argued that there exists an infinite number of universes ( awalim ), each with their own planets and stars, and that this ...
Science and technology in Asia is varied depending on the country and time. [1] In the past, among Asian civilizations considered particularly notable for their contributions to science and technology were India , China and the West Asian civilizations. [ 2 ]