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Eternal India
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CHRONOLOGY
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Date
Scientific and Technological Developments
Remarks
17th C A.D.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri:
study of animals and plants.
Advent of the Dutch, French and the British
Establishment of 'factories' for commer
cial transactions; study of Indian flora
Publication of
Hortus Malabaricus
of Heindric van Rheede (1686-1703)
In 12 volumes with illustrations;
at Amsterdam
18th C A.D. Synchronization of Arabic astronomical and mathematical knowledge with
that of India.
1723-27 Construction of Jantar Mantars at Delhi, Ujjain, Mathura, Banares and Jaipur
by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II.
Huge masonry astronomical instruments
Samrat Siddanta
of Jagannatha.
Translation of the Arabic version of
Ptolemy's
Almagest
mi
dAnville's first map of south India and his map of India
Carte de I'Inde.
Based on the knowledge of the Maragha
school of astronomy and Jesuit sources
1755 Botanical investigations of Koenig in south India
The collections sent to the University of
Lund in Sweden
1761 Survey work of Plainstead on the coasts of Chittagong.
1764 Ganges river course surveyed by Rennell.
The British East India Company
organized survey work
1781 Madrasah at Calcutta
Established on the initiative of
Warren Hastings
1783 First
Map of Hindoostan
by Rennell.
1784 The
Asiatic Society
founded at Calcutta
Wiliam Jones, the Founder-President
1785 First presentation of a paper in Persian by a Mohammedan scholar entitled
The Care of the Elephantiasis and other Disorders of the Blood
Translated and presented by William
Jones himself
1787 Royal Botanic Garden at Sibpur (Calcutta).
Rober Kyd, first Honorary
Superintendent
1791
Smaskrata Pathasala
at Banares
By the efforts of Jonathan Duncan
1792 Madras Observatory established
By Michael Topping
1793-94 William Roxburgh as the Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden.
Commencement of systematic botanical
studies.
1794 Survey School at Madras.
Beginnings of trigonometrical survey
1795 Commencement of the Geodetic work of Labton
In the Peninsula
19th C A.D.
1800
Commencement of the Publication of the Flora Indica.
Establishment of the Trigonometrical Survey Department at Madras
In three volumes, 1795, 1802 and 1819
1813 Renewal of East India Company's Charter-introduction of a clause for spend
ing one
lac
of rupees per year for the promotion of the knowledge of sciences
among the people of India.
Beginnings of British interests in educat
ing the Indians in science.
1814 Nathaniel Wallich as the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden.
His botanic collections sent to the
European centres of botanical studies
1815 General map of southern region by Lambton.
Measurement of the largest
meridional arc
1817 Establishment of
Mahavidyalaya
(Hindu College) at Calcutta. Raja Ram
-mohan Roy's primary role in the introduction of the study of Western
sciences in India
Public patronage of English education
1818 Formation of the Great Trigonometrical Survey at Calcutta.
1822 Preparation of an Atlas of India on the quarter inch scale.