Source: – Joseph T Noony / Twitter.
How do we know that the Portuguese/Jesuit missionaries were amassing manuscripts from Kerala?
1.The marauder Vasco da Gama, ignorant of Vedic celestial navigation, used the services of Indian navigator Kanha to sail from Kenya to Goa
Yet Vaso 'discovered' the sea route to India pic.twitter.com/eVUIwLQioK
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
In his diary Vasco records that he took the instruments used by Kanha to graduate it to inches
The 'rapalagai' of clear south Indian make was a wooden board with a graduated string to measure the pole star altitude & hence the latitude
No wonder he returned to terrorize kerala pic.twitter.com/Nwik3pI360
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
That was the very first contact of Europe with advanced celestial navigation, a turning point in history.
It can truly be called the beginning of full blown colonialism.
It was also the very first event in the century long story of plagiarism of Calculus from Kerala.
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
The Portuguese were defeated and expelled by the Zamorin, the Maharaja of Calicut. But they were welcomed by the raja of Kochi, his rival.
The kochiraja can rightfully be called the ManSingh/Jaichand of South India. His actions eventually plunged Kerala into colonial disaster. pic.twitter.com/UU8hYMHVnU
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
The Kochiraja patronized Portuguese merchants & allowed Jesuit missionaries to build their institutions- including the famous Cochin college which was used SPECIFICALLY to translate malayalam & sanskrit texts to Latin
Sadly, Madhava & his disciples lived in the Kingdom of Kochi.
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
Even worse! The Kerala school Mathematician of the time- Sankara Varier(1500-1560) served at the Kochiraja's court.
He authored Yuktidipika- the clearest manuscript of Calculus at the time. He also possessed ALL THE WORKS of his predecessors- Madhava, Jyesthadeva & Nilakanta.
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
You'd think it can't get any worse
Christopher Clavius, under orders of Pope Gregory, sent one of his best trained Jesuit mathematicians to Kochi. His was Matteo Ricci
Clavius & Ricci had just learned the(rudimentary) decimal system & was struggling to learn Indian trigonometry
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
Dear reader, let that sink in.
The most intelligent man on earth at that time- Sankara Variar-was serving a king who was literally enthralled to the Portuguese
At a time when the Jesuits were manuscript hunting to learn Indian trigonometry just to reform the Julian calendar.
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
2. Coming back, let us give @thewire_in the 2nd DOCUMENTED evidence of European contact with KSOM.
"I am trying to learn the methods of reckoning time from an intelligent Brahmin."
-Matteo Ricci wrote to Petri Maffei in Dec 1581That Brahmin was probably a disciple of Sankara
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
The original words in Portuguese-
“Com tudo não me parece que sera impossivel saberse, mas has de ser por via
d`algum mouro honorado ou brahmane muito intelligente que saiba as cronicas dos tiempos, dos quais eu procurarei saber tudo”Reproduced in Documenta Indica, XII (p 474)
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018
Now we can TRULY appreciate how UTTERLY wrong the article's 'sequential development' statement is
Clavius whose lifelong work was decimal system & Indian trigonometric tables died in 1612. Newton was born in 1642
From decimals to calculus within a century!
WHAT sequence?!!
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 23, 2018