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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

CHRONOLOGY

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Scientific and Technological Developments

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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 Based on the knowledge of the Maragha school of astronomy and Jesuit sources The collections sent to the University of Lund in Sweden

mi dAnville's first map of south India and his map of India Carte de I'Inde.

1755 Botanical investigations of Koenig in south India

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 Established on the initiative of Warren Hastings

1781 Madrasah at Calcutta

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

Commencement of the Publication of the Flora Indica.

In three volumes, 1795, 1802 and 1819

19th C A.D. 1800

Establishment of the Trigonometrical Survey Department at Madras

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

Public patronage of English education

Mahavidyalaya (Hindu College) at Calcutta. Raja Ram -mohan Roy's primary role in the introduction of the study of Western sciences in India

1818 Formation of the Great Trigonometrical Survey at Calcutta.

1822 Preparation of an Atlas of India on the quarter inch scale.