Was the gravity discovered by Bhaskar Charya 1200 yrs before newton discovered it??

Question

it has been mentioned in the book "Surya Siddhanta".
any info. u can give?

Answer 1

Newton's 'discovery' of gravity is most importantly linked to the using integral calculus to relate the motion of the planets as an elipse and the area swept out by a line from sun to planeta as being a constant. this is deriveable from the equation of gravity that links the masses and the inverse square of the distance.
Bhaskaracharya described the motion of the planets in algabreic terms. He also established some rules for differential calculus and some initial points of integral calculus, but these were not applied in the motion of planets.
so it is not as if BC wrote down the same principles that Newton did, or that Newton's work was identical. Still BC's description of the motion of planets is remarkable.
also he lived in 1114 to 1185 while Newton lived 1643 to 1727. so anything he wrote would have been about 550 years before.

Answer 2

Yes. According to McDonalds' Guide Book to the Americas, gravity was discovered by an American in 451 BC well before Bhaskar Charya and Newton.

Answer 3

Well technically, gravity was discovered by the first primitive caveman who fell off a cliff.
Bhaskarcharya described some aspects of planetary motion in his "Grahaganita" (mathematics of the planets).
However, Newton is generally credited as the first to formalize the laws of gravitation mathematically, and realize that planetary orbits occurred due to gravity.

Answer 4

Gravity was discovered when the first caveman fell of a tree while sleeping after a good and tasty meal. About 100,000 years later, Newton wrote down why this mysterious force existed before anyone else knew.

Answer 5

No.

In Siddhantasiromani, Bhaskara Acharya discusses planetary motions in terms of eccentrics and epicycles, which are geocentric models that go back at least as far as Hipparchos (2nd century BC) and were broadly popularized by Ptolemy (2nd century AD).