Acharya Kanad: FOUNDER OF ATOMIC THEORY As the founder of " Vaisheshik Darshan "- one of six principal philosophies of India - Acharya Kanad was a genius in philosophy. He is believed to have been born in Prabhas Kshetra near Dwarika in Gujarat . He was the pioneer expounder of realism, law of causation and the atomic theory. He has classified all the objects of creation into nine elements, namely: earth, water, light, wind, ether, time, space, mind and soul. He says, "Every object of creation is made of atoms which in turn connect with each other to form molecules." His statement ushered in the Atomic Theory for the first time ever in the world, nearly 2500 years before John Dalton . Kanad has also described the dimension and motion of atoms and their chemical reactions with each other. The eminent historian, T.N. Colebrook , has said, "Compared to the scientists of Europe , Kanad and other Indian scientists were the global masters of this field."
This website discusses India's contributions to physics specifically looking at Kanad's idea of the Anu and Parmanu... could you imagine if it was proven that the Greeks borrowed these ideas from our Vedic scientists??? That would definitely rattle the Western view of the world... http://www.unitedindia.com/laws_of_atoms.htm
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Its great how people in our history, our culture, were the ones to figure out these great things, but it sucks how they don't really get the credit for discovering it.
Like for discovering that the Earth is round and calculating the motion of planets and things like that. Well I guess it is known that Aryabhatta said this, but I mean like in textbooks and stuff people like Copernicus are credited.
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