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Arthur Holmes
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“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus.”
Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Iyengar, T R R Hinduism and Scientific Quest D K PrintWorld P Ltd. New Delhi 1997p. 20 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her cultu…
“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus, whose astonishing concept of the Earth's duration has been traced back to Manusmriti, a sacred book.”
Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arthur Holmes, The Age of Earth (1913)