I tend to agree with You but think it probably goes much further back in time. The article also mentions the fact that "Jesuits were in the area during that ti

I tend to agree with You but think it probably goes much further back in time. The article also mentions the fact that "Jesuits were in the area during that time." It is well known that in the west during that time, the church kept a vast array of knowledge closely guarded from the general population, potentially a cause for the dark ages. It is entirely possible that the Indian innovations were actually in fact passed to them from the Jesuits, only to be published by the Indian school and then eventually making its way back to the European masses. And before that it's most likely the same discoveries were made by the Syrians and so on and so on...