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Our content is based on various literary and online sources. Every effort has been made to give credit to these sources throughout the site. All sources have been suitably  paraphrased and the content is in no way identical to these sources, unless quoted.

Entire book:

1) A. L. Basham, The Wonder that was India, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited,  1967

2) D. D. Kosambi, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline, Vikas Publishing House, 1982Peter Connolly, Greece and Rome at War, Macdonald Phoebus Ltd., 1981

3) Peter Connolly, Greece and Rome at War, Macdonald Phoebus Ltd., 1981

4) Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions, Ballantine Books, 1994

5) R. C. Majumdar, The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Vedic Age, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1988

Portions of a book:

1) Alexander Hellemans and Bryan Bunch, The Timetables of Science, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1989, 

2) Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger, Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, William Scribner's Sons, 1988, pages 221-264, 277-396, 679-722, 1227-1248.

3) Carl B. Boyer and Uta Merzbach, A History of Mathematics, John Wiley and Sons, 1991, pages 62-224.

4) Rama Shankar Tripathi, History of Ancient India, Motilal Banarasidass, 1987, pages 156-157, 274-276.

5) William Reid, Weapons through the Ages, Peerage Books, 1984, pages 9-29.

Online references:

0) Ancient India's Contribution to Science & Technology.
http://india.coolatlanta.com/greatpages/sudheer/ 

1) Antiqua Medicina - from Homer to Vesalius (University of Virginia)
http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/textp.htm

2) Coinage of Ancient Greece
http://people.ucsc.edu/~gweltaz/techno/index.html

3) Engineering in the Roman World
http://myron.sjsu.edu/romeweb/engineer/engineer.htm

4) Life Positive publication by Magus Media Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
http://www.lifepositive.com/mind/culture/indology/ancientindia-article.asp

5) Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome,
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html

6) Rees's Clepsydra 1819
http://www.ubr.com/clocks/pub/clep/clep.html

7) Richard Azia's Roman Civilisation
http://www.main-vision.com/richard/Builders.html

8) Roman numerals - history and use
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/roman/intro.html

9) The Ancient Ayurvedic Writings
http://www.ayurveda.com/info/index.html

10) UK Copper Development Organisation: 60 Centuries of Copper,
http://60centuries.copper.org/

 
 


 
 
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