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It is remarkable that this book completely excludes the contributions of Indians to Atomic Science, beginning with prior work of Kannada that predates the Greeks. It was literally the outflow of mathematical and scientific ideas out of India that triggered the entire enlightenment in Europe. But, sadly, this book, like so many of its peers, concludes that Western science began with the Greeks, without bothering to find out where Greek thought originated -- namely, in the Indian sciences. Many of the early greeks (Pythagorus, Apollonius, etc.) were known to travel thousands of miles to venture to India to learn and bring back the knowledge developed there. In later periods, the ideas of calculus were brought to Europe by the Jesuit missionaries who came to Keralas shores. When will these historical exclusions be corrected? It seems the narrative is hell bent on showing that science and technology began 'in the West'; despite the fact that it was a global phenomenon that had its roots in Indian thought. The enlightenment was largely a period of tremendous intellectual piracy, partly fueled by the fact that the Church played such a heavy hand in the development of Western science. To avoid some very serious consequences, many of the early scientists avoided crediting the original sources, for fear of reprisals from the Church.