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Articles: TP Features | | charitra gamanaMlO malupulu | |
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| Point taken.
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 27, Nov 2006 10:58:20 AM IST
The points about India's scientific achievements are well taken. The Pythagoras theorem, for example, received an independent proof in Indian mathematics. In fact Prof. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya and other scholars have written extensively about Indian ethos in ancient scientific discoveries. They also comment about the sociological ills that compelled, among other things, outstanding astronomy to degenerate into pseudo sciences like astrology etc in later times.
But the point remains that all these things never led to any Renaissance. The argument in the article is about the historical developments that did and did not take place across various continents at a given time and the underlying causes (some of which will be dealt with in detail in the subsequent articles).
In fact the article points out that there is nothing inherently inferior or superior about any culture but external factors seem to have played a vital role in shaping history.
The American natives were no match to the marauding Spaniards. In India, Tipu Sultan, faced with the superior might of the British army, was one of the people who had guessed correctly that he was fighting an unequal war with an enemy who seemed to belong to a different historical period compared to himself. However, his attempts at co-opting the French to fight on his behalf, failed when British spies intercepted his secret message to Napoleone Bonaparte.
Posted by: Dr. Rohiniprasad Kodavatiganti At: 27, Nov 2006 7:53:54 AM IST
Galelio existed between February 15, 1564 and January 8, 1642 ... wherez Aryabhata's period ranged from 476-550. And Aryabhata's contributions ranged from,
- Elliptical Orbits
- Initial version of Heliocentric theory
- Defining Pi as an irrational number
- Defining the area of a triangle
- Diophantine equations
- Using alphabets (like our 'x') for unknown quantities
There has been some confusion regarding Aryabhatta's identity (wikipedia) --- Another notable Indian mathematician, Aryabhata II flourished sometime between 950 and 1100 AD and were two famous Indian mathematicians named Aryabhata who lived around 500 AD. The subsequent confusion continued for some time, but in 1926 B Datta showed that al-Biruni's two Aryabhattas were one and the same. However there is a precise mention of the year of birth of Aryabhata in the Aryabhatiya (3-10) which corresponds to 476 AD .
I dont intend to demean your article Rohiniprasad garu, I repeat -- it is an excellent one -- but I beg to differ with you on your contention that Indians were backward while Galileo made advances.
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 25, Nov 2006 4:58:42 PM IST
A glimpse of Varahamihira ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varahamihira
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 25, Nov 2006 4:47:19 PM IST
Excellent one Rohiniprasad garu - no doubt about it ... but Isnt it true that our own Varahamihira et.al made significant advances in Astro-Physics, (Specifically the advbances in Helio-centric theory even before Copernicus's studies?)
I happened to read lil bit of Maharshi Bharadwaja's principles of Vaimanika Shastra and was astonished to find that the Indian DRDO used some of those principles in the design of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) ... (This is not based on hearsay ... I know this for sure because I was a DRDO fellowship holder during my Masters)
Correct me if I am wrong - we Indians too advanced a lot, faster than the others, but the real problem was that, the knowledge acquired had been limited to the members of a few castes/communities whereas the majority of the people was clueless about it ...
As those ideas were not documented anywhere and since the following generations of the knowledge-possessing castes/communities could not handle/store/enhance the knowledge efficiently, all the efforts of the greats didnt yield expected results. (This is just my opinon and please correct me if I am wrong anywhere)
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 25, Nov 2006 4:41:44 PM IST
Waiting for next part sir....
Posted by: Mr. Aandhrudu At: 23, Nov 2006 12:27:01 PM IST
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