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Hindu Science, Technology and Astronomy
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Hindu Science, Technology and Astronomy
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From: y.r.rani@mail.utexas.edu (Yvette C. Rosser)
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Date: 7 May 1995 05:55:16 GMT
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From news@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu Sun May 7 01: 44:11 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
I am sponsoring a workshop on Scientific and Technological contributions
of India. If anyone has information on this topic, please send it to me
via my email address or via snail mail listed below. Thank you.
<y.r.rani@mail.utexas.edu>
Topics include:
Indian Contributions to Mathematics and Science
A focus on the origin of our contemporary number system and the
foundations of arithmetic.
Applications to Technology
A discussion of science in service to humanity, health, the environment
and social welfare.
Also a presentation of amazing scientific accomplishments from India such
as the Q'tab Minar pillar that remains a metallurgical mystery.
Celestial Considerations
A discussion of ancient Indian Astronomy and its early recognition of
fixed stars and an orbiting earth.
Causality: Time/Space and the Fundamental Ideas of the Universe
A discussion of connections and correlations between modern physics and
the philosophic traditions of India.
Your help in locating simple, straight-forward materials is most appreciated.
Yvette Rosser
oUTreach Asia
Center for Asian Studies
WCH 4.132, G9300
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1194
