Subject: Re: [HM] Indian astronomy and mathematics
From: Ralph Gainey (sesame@mcn.org)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 08:33:51 EST
Kim Plofker wrote:
> As my final contribution to this thread ...
I would like to ask about the possibility that there may be books in
Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu or other languages which were translated from
Arabic and still unknown in the West. I ask this because I am first
interested in the lost book of Omar Khayyam, and second because the
question "what happened to the books" is so often answered with "we
burned most of them; in Alexandria, in Babylon, in Andalusia, and in
Constantinople." I keep hoping more will turn up.
Ralph Gainey
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