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  The parent of all humanity
The philosopher and researcher Edward Pococke also wrote about this conclusion in his book India in Greece (page 251).
Thus, it was India who nurtured the rest of the world with her wisdom and Vedic knowledge.
Pococke continues in this vein in his observation: "Now the whole of the society of Greece, civil and military, must strike on as being eminently Asiatic, much of it specially Indian...
www.vina.cc /stories/GENERAL/2005/1/parent.of.humanity.html   (1315 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 1604 - Calendar Encyclopedia
John Maurice of Nassau, count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1679)
Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691)
June 24 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (born 1550)
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Brian Walton
Walton's Polyglot was the first book published by subscription in England.
To carry out his work successfully, Walton secured the aid of nearly all the contemporary English scholars, particularly Edmund Castell, Edward Pococke, Thomas Hyde, Dudley Loftus, Abraham Weelocke, Thomas Greaves, and Samuel Clarke, but the editorship devolved upon himself.
While the Polyglot was in the press, he published as an aid to the perusal thereof an "Introductio ad lectionem linguarum Orientalium" (London, 1655; Deventer, 1655, 1658).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15545c.htm   (535 words)

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