Indians knew about gravity before Newton: Isro ex-chief

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Musalman never contributed anything except for trolling. Right? Please stop your trolls.

Okay..

 

[Levina]

Don't need to, I have read most of his works long back. What he is describing there is WRONG. I wouldn't blame him forr that, because he was working with very little data. What he has written there is what everybody in the ancient times believed - that everything falls towards the earth, because the earth attracts everything. Aristotle thought that the tendency of earth is to move things down, the tendency of fire is to raise things up, and something similar for wind and water. You don't need a Brahmagupta or an Aristotle to tell you that things fall down - even our prehuman ancestors knew that.

What Newton did was that he radically changed this idea. That's right, he disproved the notion that "all heavy things fall down to the earth by a law of nature,..." (From your quote.)

Newton instead showed that EVERYTHING attracts everything else. The earth does, the moon does, you do, your computer does, etc. It is not that everything tends to fall "down" - it is that everything attract each other. The earth is no special in that. From there he also developed a mathematical model, an equation to calculate how much each thing attracts another thing. That is when it became a theory.

BTW, the words "all heavy things" in that quote also exposes a common misunderstanding. It's not just heavy things, bt light things also fall, and at exactly the same rate.

It's Newton's theories that brought our understanding of gravitation to a new level. The ancients saw things fall down, and assumed that the earth makes everything fall down. Newton changed such notions. BTW, Newton's theory itelf had to be slightly refined later, by Einstein. That is how scientific understanding progresses - step by step, from no understanding to complete understanding.

I know am banging my head against a wall...just google Matteo Ricci, Whish and Hyne. Those 're men who stole our texts on calculus in 1580. And some like Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz , Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke raced with each other to translate it.
And you think an apple did all those wonders to Isaac newton? Lol

I'm a student of science, but I find it hard to believe that Europeans whose civilizations were in infancy while we had Mohenjodaros and harappas, could 've given us such complicated laws.

 

[Screambowl]

I know am banging my head against a wall...just google Matteo Ricci, Whish and Hyne. Those 're men who stole our texts on calculus in 1580. And some like Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz , Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke raced with each other to translate it.
And you think an apple did all those wonders to Isaac newton? Lol

I'm a student of science, but I find it hard to believe that Europeans whose civilizations were in infancy while we had Mohenjodaros and harappas, could 've given us such complicated laws.

The Britishers have patiently stolen all the knowledge. Even the Rocket science from Tipu Sultan. And after stealing they started saying Indians have no knowledge. It is a land of snake charmers. Creating inferiority complex in our ownselves. Intellectual subversion and psywar.

 

[Levina]

Many people knew about gravity before Newton, but did they explained it in mathematical formulas?

The Indian formulas didnt have u,v,a,s and t instead we had hetus, nyayas, cheda, tat-kalika-gati etc, which were not easy to understand. Add to it that knowledge of such topics were passed on only among the brahmans.

 

[janon]

Bhaskara defined the circular motion of the plant and attributed it to gravity. Gravity itself and the heliocentric system was first taught by aryabhata. Brahmagupta came much later.

You are confusing the two Bhaskaras. The fellow who wrote the Chedyakadhikara was Bhaskara 2, who lived in the 12th century. He revered Brahmagupta, and in fact most of his works build on earlier works of Brahmagupta. Bhaskara 1 was roughly contemporanious with Brahmagupta.

 

[Levina]

Okay !

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That one looks just like you ...grumpy baby!!

 

[Armstrong]

we had Mohenjodaros and harappas, could 've given us such complicated laws.

I will sue you for falsely claiming our history as yours !

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

The Britishers have patiently stolen all the knowledge. Even the Rocket science from Tipu Sultan. And after stealing they started saying Indians have no knowledge. It is a land of snake charmers. Creating inferiority complex in our ownselves. Intellectual subversion and psywar.

But Sultan Topu was an "evil musalman" malecha ... Musalmans never invented anything...

 

[Dem!god]

its amazing.... why west look down on us, and consider us as inferior, because we indians dont even have guts to accept our past and have a complex of worshipping whites...

 

[janon]

I know am banging my head against a wall...just google Matteo Ricci, Whish and Hyne. Those 're men who stole our texts on calculus in 1580. And some like Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz , Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke raced with each other to translate it.

Did you even read my post? I said that calculus was first used in central Kerala, two centuries before Newton and Lebnitz. I know that, and I said that.

 

[Levina]

I will sue you for falsely claiming our history as yours !

We as in you and us, your history is incomplete without us.
Burn baby burn!!!

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

I will sue you for falsely claiming our history as yours !

South Indian talking about mohenjodaro n Harappa .. O LOrD!

Butt Sb try reading Indus Saga by Aitezaz Ahsan...

 

[Levina]

Did you even read my post? I said that calculus was first used in central Kerala, two centuries before Newton and Lebnitz. I know that, and I said that.

If so then why 're we debating here?

 

[janon]

I'm a student of science, but I find it hard to believe that Europeans whose civilizations were in infancy while we had Mohenjodaros and harappas, could 've given us such complicated laws.

LOL. I see.

So I guess since Harappan civilization was so advanced for its time, there is no way that Europeans or Americans should have more knowledge of aeronautics today, right?

That's why Europeans are requesting transfer of technology from us for these things.

 

[Armstrong]

We as in you and us, your history is incomplete without us.
Burn baby burn!!!

Auntie, Indus Valley Civilization didn't begin in Delhi !

It began along the River Indus and thats in Pakistan and Occupied Pakistan aka J&K !