Shashi Tharoor has a review of the book Lost Discoveries by Dick Teresi, which studies the ancient non-Western foundations of modern science. In this article Tharoor writes about the sciences in which our ancestors excelled. These include planetary astronomy, chemistry, physics, steel making, printing and paper making, and ship building.
[Ref: The Hindu]
Comments (4)
Great post. Are you having problems pinging? I'm not picking-up your updates through blogrolling.com
Posted by Niraj | July 28, 2003 7:12 PM
Posted on July 28, 2003 19:12
Niraj, This is the error in my activity log
Ping 'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: HTTP error: 500 read timeout
It has been failing for the past few days. Do I need to do anything
Posted by JK | July 29, 2003 8:17 AM
Posted on July 29, 2003 08:17
No, the problem it is at their end. It has happened to me, too. You seem fine now. Just double-checking!
Posted by Niraj | July 29, 2003 10:52 AM
Posted on July 29, 2003 10:52
JK, add this to the urls to ping in your trackback - http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ - this pings blogrolling.com directly, so you don't have to rely on Weblogs.com
Posted by Shanti | July 29, 2003 6:36 PM
Posted on July 29, 2003 18:36