[INDOLOGY] 16th India Studies Webinar: Science in Ancient India by Prof Subhash Kak

[Professor Pankaj Jain पंकज जैन, Ph.D.]

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> *Date and Time:* Tuesday, Feb 14th 2023, 7pm
>
*Abstract:*
> Early Indian contributions to science that are not well known to the
> layperson include a deep theory of mind, Pāṇini’s astonishing Sanskrit
> grammar, binary numbers of Piṅgala, music theory, combinatorics, algebra,
> earliest astronomy, and the physics of Kaṇāda with its laws of motion. Of
> these, Kaṇāda is the least known. He may not have presented his ideas as
> mathematical equations, but he attempted something that no physicist to
> date has dared to do: he advanced a system that includes space, time,
> matter, as well as observers. He also postulated four types of atoms, two
> with mass (that turn out to be like proton and electron) and two with
> little mass (like the modern neutrino and photon), and the idea of
> invariance. A thousand or more years after Kaṇāda, Āryabhaṭa postulated
> that earth rotated and advanced the basic idea of relativity of motion.
> This webinar presents an overview of such scientific discoveries in ancient
> India.
>




*Please click the link below to join the
webinar:https://flameuniversity.zoom.us/j/93723576806
<https://flameuniversity.zoom.us/j/93723576806>Passcode: 321336*

Regards,
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Pankaj Jain, Ph.D., पंकज जैन <https://www.flame.edu.in/faculty/pankaj-jain>
Head, Humanities and Languages
Chair, The India Centre <https://indiacentre.flame.edu.in/>
Professor, Philosophy & Religious Studies
FLAME University
https://linktr.ee/ProfPankajJain

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