sines) calculated for every half degree, also methods for computing eclipses and other things.
Siddhanta), and possessed methods for solving equations founded on the kardagas (i.e. He was skilled in the calculus of the stars known as Sindhind (i.e. When Sind was under the dominion of Caliph al-Mansur (753-774), there appeared before him a scholar who had come from India. Arab interest in Hindu sciences was parallel to their interest in Greek learning. From then on the ancient scientific knowledge of India continued to influence Muslim scientists. The scientific cooperation between India and the Arabs dates back to the time of the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad when a number of books on astronomy, mathematics, and medicine were translated from Sanskrit into Arabic. Islamic World welcomed Christians and Jewish students equally with Muslims, not only that, but entertained them at the Government expense and that hundreds of Christian students from South of Europe and the countries of the East took advantage of that chance to escape from ecclesiastical leading strings we can easily perceive what a debt of gratitude modern European progress owes to Islam, while it owes nothing whatsoever to the Christian Church, which persecuted, tortured, even burnt the learned.” Marmaduke Pickthall, The Cultural Side of Islam, Lahore, 1969, p 76
The scientific cooperation between India and the Arabs dates back to the time of Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad when a number of books on astronomy, mathematics, and medicine were translated from Sanskrit into Arabic.
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