HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Who among the following anticipated Newton by affirming that all things tended to gravitate to the earth?
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Aryabhatta
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Brahmagupta
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Varahamihira
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Buddhagupta
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -d Brahmagupta was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who had written numerous important books on mathematics and astronomy. He anticipated Newton by declaring that all things gravitate to the earth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Brahmagupta-II, not Isaac Newton, discovered gravity: Rajasthan education minister. State education minister Vasudev Devnani claimed that Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta-II discovered the law of gravity.
Detailed explanation-3: -“We all have studied that Newton gave the law of gravitation, but delving deeper, we can find that Brahmagupta-II came up with the theory of gravitation 1, 000 years before (Newton).
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