CHAPTER VII.
ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA, AND GEOMETRY OF THE HINDUS.
Opinions of Dr. Peacock regarding antiquity of Hindu Notation.
Dr. Hutton's views on origin and history of Algebra.
The Earliest Arabian Treatise on Algebra, by Mahomed Ben Musa.
The Algebra of Diophantus—probably a translation from some ancient Asiatic manuscript.
Encouragement of the Alexandrian School of Astronomy, by the Ptolemies.
The Lilavati and Vija-Ganita—Hindu treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra.
Description of these works by Dr. Hutton.
The Sun Dial.
Examples of problems and methods of solution from Algebra of Hindus.
CHAPTER VIII.
HINDU ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS.
The Armillary Sphere.
The Nadi Valaya.
The Ghati, or Clepshydra.
The Chakra, or Circle.
CHAPTER IX.
EARLY HINDU ASTRONOMERS.
Distinction between circumstances derived from a consideration of the great Epic Poems of the Hindus, and even of the Vedas and Institutes of Menu, and circumstances connected with purely astronomical deductions.
Two Royal Dynasties—the "Children of the Sun" and the "Children of the Moon."
Rama, the son of Dasaratha, the hero most distinguished by the Hindus.
Yudhisthira, the hero of the Mahabarata (the war between the Pandus and the Kurus).
The Astronomers Parasara and Garga contemporary with Yudhisthira.
Inferences as to date deduced from statements by these astronomers.
