The Indian Civilization and culture, as one of the world's oldest civilizations, has a strong tradition of science and technology. Ancient India was home to sages and seers, as well as scholars and scientists.
According to research India, active in the field contributed long science and technology centuries before modern laboratories to teach the world to count from the best steel in the world.
Many ancient Indian theories and techniques created and strengthened the foundations of modern science and technology.
When you think about the contributions of Ancient Indian Scientists, it looks like all the inventions, ideas and projects that blow our minds now were already came up by those people, without the resources that we have today, giving all of us goosebumps.
We may never know how, but surely, we can know what they did. Even though many of the books they wrote based on their research are lost, we are still not left with nothing.
The percentage of what we know about these people is very small, but still if we look at the amount of information that we have collected it is far more vast than one can ever imagine. There are many ancient scientists if we reach the depths and search.
Numerous postulates and scientific methods discovered by the Avant garde ancient Indians provided a foundation for intrinsic fundamental principles of modern sciences. While some of these significant contributions have been recognised, many remain unacknowledged.
Here are some examples of ancient Indian contributions to science and technology.
1. Theory of Gravity
Sir Isaac Newton is the first name that comes to mind when we consider the concept of gravity. Most of us have heard the story about Newton being inspired to write the "Universal Law of Gravitation" after an apple fell from the tree.
The world believes Newton discovered gravity, but ancient Indians knew about it long before him. Varahamihira (505-587 CE), an astronomer and mathematician, was the first person in India to think of the concept of gravity. He claimed that there must be a force that keeps bodies stuck to the Earth as well as heavenly bodies in specific locations.
Interestingly, another Indian mathematician, Brahamagupta, made a comment on gravity.
2. Binary Numbers
Binary numbers, which are used as a programming language, are made up of two numbers: 1 and 0, which are referred to as Bits and Bytes, respectively.
Pingala mentioned them in his work "Chandahstra," a prosody treatise. Pingala is credited with using binary numbers in the form of short and long syllables, a Morse code-like notation.
3. Rules for Zero- Brahmagupta
While Bhaskara I is credited with giving zero its current symbol and Aryabhatta with introducing zero to the world, it was Brahmagupta who elevated zero to the status of a number in mathematics.
He was the first mathematician to define operation rules. In his book, Brahmasphuta Siddhanta, he successfully concluded that the addition or subtraction of zero to or from any quantity, negative or positive, is always zero, the product of any quantity with zero is zero, and the division of any quantity by zero is infinity.
4. Discovery Of Alloys
Around the 2nd BC, in a laboratory in Nagarjuna Konda, Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjuna I, a Buddhist monk, exclaimed in joy as he discovered the process of alloying.
Rasarathnakara, his book, contains notes on the extraction and purification of silver, tin, and copper from their ores. They also discuss metal distillation, sublimation, calcination, and colouring.
5. Baudhayana - Pythagoras Theorem
In his book, the Sulba Sutra, Baudhayana mentions a theorem stating that a rope stretched along the length of a rectangle's diagonal (hypotenuse) produces an area equal to the sum of the vertical and horizontal sides. Does this sound familiar? It is, in fact, a prelude to a theorem that would become known as the Pythagoras theorem.
Mathematics, modern accounting, business transactions, and computer technology are all made possible by this brilliant Indian numeral system; from Wall Street to the space programme, modern civilisation is dependent on this number system.
A modern scientist studying the teeth of long-dead people discovered that ancient dentists drilled teeth as long as 9,000 years ago.Young people should be educated about India's scientific and mathematical achievements. However, it must be scientific, logical, and truthful.
Unfortunately, even universities are claiming the impossible. We do not need to resort to lies to demonstrate our scientific prowess. The truth is astonishing enough.
What we can be certain of is that India played a central role in everything we know about mathematics and many sciences today, and our civilisation discovered these concepts millennia before Europe.
Written By: Greeshma Chowdary
Edited By: Nidhi Jha
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