{"id":2711,"date":"2002-12-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/12\/21\/2002-12-21-the-non-western-roots-of-science\/"},"modified":"2002-12-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-21T12:00:00","slug":"2002-12-21-the-non-western-roots-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/12\/21\/2002-12-21-the-non-western-roots-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Western Roots of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/12\/01\/books\/review\/01HALLLT.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, December 1, 2002: This very interesting  review in the New York Times is of &#8220;Lost Discoveries,&#8221; a book which describes how the West&#8217;s history of science tends to ignore the contributions of the East. Some examples: The author &#8220;has created a very neat chronicle &#8212; and a timely reminder &#8212; of how much of the foundation of modern scientific thought and technological development was built by the mostly overlooked contributions of Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Polynesians and Mesoamericans. &#8230;. &#8220;The ancient Indians, long before Copernicus, knew that the Earth revolved around the sun and, a thousand years before Kepler, knew that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, December 1, 2002: This very interesting review in the New York Times is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}