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...a, Vijnana and Hindi Commentary) |date=1966 |publisher=Indian Institute of Astronomical and Sanskrit Research |location=Delhi |pages=155–186 |url=https://archive.o ...rm ''Pātīgaṇita'' is also the title of a work composed by [[Sridhara]], an Indian mathematician who flourished during the 8th-9th century CE.<ref name=Shukla ...

{{Short description|Ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system}} ...Malayalam: [[:ml:പരല്‍പ്പേര്|പരല്‍പ്പേര്]]) of numerical notation is an [[ancient]] [[India]]n [[alphasyllabic numeral system]] to depict [[letter (alphabet) ...

...of feudal states of Kerala|principality]] on the [[Malabar Coast]] of the Indian subcontinent during the [[Middle Ages]]. It was governed by the Tanur dynas ...stern historians, presumably at first because they could not admit that an Indian discovered the calculus, but later because no one read the ''Transactions o ...

...during the 3rd century BC from applications of [[geometry]] to [[Astronomy|astronomical studies]].<ref>R. Nagel (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Science'', 2nd Ed., The Ga ...similar method.<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Neugebauer |title=A history of ancient mathematical astronomy. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO5FCVIxz2 ...

...=March 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html|title=an old Mathematical Object|publisher=|accessdate= ...first [[Babylonian cuneiform numerals|numeral system]], and a system of [[Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement|weights and measures]]. ...

...ithmetic]], one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a ''[[List of geometers|geometer]]''. Un ...aad8085 |pmid=26823423 |s2cid=206644971}}</ref> South of Egypt the [[Nubia|ancient Nubians]] established a system of geometry including early versions of sun ...

== Ancient Egypt == ...l is being spent. This practice has existed in some form for centuries; in ancient [[Egypt]], for example, when grain was often used as currency, local granar ...

==Science in ancient and Medieval Iran (Persia)== ===Ancient technology in Iran=== ...

* ''[[Indus (constellation)|Indus]]'' represents an Indian, a word that could refer at the time to any native of Asia or the Americas. ...the [[Oort cloud]], a spherical swarm of comets extending beyond 50,000 [[Astronomical unit|AU]] from the Sun first hypothesised by Dutch astronomer [[:Category:D ...

...ht|solar radiation]] out of the total [[solar radiation]] received by an [[astronomical body]] (e.g. a [[planet]] like [[Earth]]). It is [[dimensionless number|dim ...called '''planetoids'''. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the [[Sun]] that did not resemble a planet-like disc and wa ...

...of the world [played] a greater role in the evolution of firearms than the ancient Italian valley region known as ''Val Trompia''}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cit .../hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/candles2.html|title=Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Candles|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...