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