Severus Sebokht

Severus Sebokht (575 - 667) (Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܘܣ ܣܝܒܘܟܬ), also Seboukt of Nisibis, was a Syriac scholar and bishop who was born in Nisibis, Syria.

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 * I shall now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus ... of their subtle discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians - of their rational system of matbematics or of their method of calculation which no word can praise strongly enough - 1 mean the system using the nine symbols. If these things were known by the people who think that they alone have mastered the sciences because they speak Greek, they would perhaps be convinced that every folk, not only Greeks, but men of a different tongues, know something as well as they.
 * Basham,AL The Wonder That Was India Grove Press Inc. New York 1954 Volume I p. vi as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture