Gosling - Science and the Indian tradition: when Einstein met Tagore

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Ashok Kapur

3 Science and the Indian Tradition

When Einstein met Tagore

David L.Gosling

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Gosling, David L., 1939
Science and the Indian tradition: when Einstein met Tagore/David L.Gosling.
p. cm.(India in the modern world series; 3)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ScienceIndiaHistory19th century 2. ScienceIndiaHistory20th century. 3. IndiaCivilizationEuropean influences. 4. IndiaIntellectual life19th century. 5. IndiaIntellectual life20th century 6. Religion and scienceIndiaHistory19th century. 7. Religion and scienceIndiaHistory20th century. I. Title.
Q127.I4G77 2007
303.483095409041dc22 2006034941

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This book was first suggested by Professor R.Ninian Smart, and I have therefore dedicated it to him. His idea began to come to fruition in February 2005 when I was asked to give the Teape seminars at the University of Cambridge. I am therefore grateful to the Trustees of the Teape Foundation and the Cambridge-Delhi Christian Partnership for this honour, and also for inviting me to give the main Teape lectures in India in 2008.

I also wish to express my gratitude to the following: John W.Bowker, Prem Sagar Dwivedi, Julius J.Lipner, Daniel OConnor and members of the Society of Ordained Scientists for their assistance.

I am grateful to Andrew Robinson for permission to use the photograph of Einstein with Tagore, published in Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity, 2005.

Rosemary Smith painstakingly typed and gave stylistic advice on the manuscript, and I am enormously grateful to her for that.