Thursday, May 20, 2010

INDIA DESCRIBE "GRAVITY OF EARTH"

Some Reality about Gravitational theory:

We know "Gravitational force of earth" describe by Newton. But Truth is:
In "Siddhanta Siromani" (Bhuvanakosam 6) "Bhaskaracharya II" described "gravity of earth" about 400 years before Sir Isaac Newton. He also had some clear notions on "differential calculus", and the "Theory of Continued Fraction".

-> Brahmagupta, 630 A.D., said, the following about Gravity,

“Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow".


-> Aryabhatta also propounded the "Heliocentric theory of gravitation", thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years.


-> Gravitational Force (Prashnopanishad) (6000 B.C) Shankaracharya (500 B.C) 17th Century