Ancient Indian Scientists

Mathematics, Astronomy, Science, Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga, Religious, Literature, Philosophy, etc. fields have also been the main and immense contributions of Ancient India. Of all these, Mathematics and science were the most developed and got the most achievement during the ancient period in India. There are too many famous ancient Indian Mathematicians, Aryabhatta, Baudhayan, Bhaskaracharya, Brahmgupta, and Mahaviracharya. Apart from this, the most famous scientists were Nagarjuna, Kanad, and Varahamihira. Despite this, Medical Science was too famous and immensely developed in ancient India. The father of ancient science was Thales (c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC). So, if you would like to know more information about the Ancient Indian Scientists, then you must follow the below-given info. 

Ancient Indian Scientists

There are too many Scientists who were famous in ancient India. Some most populous scientists were Varahamihira, Kanad, and Nagarjuna. Apart from this, some most populous ancient Indian Mathematicians were Bhaskaracharya, Aryabhatta, Baudhayan, Mahaviracharya, and Brahmgupta. If you want to know about all the most developed Ancient Indian Scientists of Mathematics or astronomy and science, then you must follow the below-given points. 

Old Indian Scientists and Their Inventions

Below are the Old Indian scientists, and their inventions are given in-depth. You can know all about the ancient Indian scientists’ inventions and their achievements below. 

Mathematics and Astronomy 

Did you know that what we are in today’s time, our modern mathematicians have made theories and concepts, even though that’s all the old Indian mathematicians knew already? But he could not develop these concepts and theorems because he did not have proper documents. It was not even developed because there was a lack of publicity and dissemination. There are some most important ancient Indian inventions in Mathematics and Astronomy. Let’s know all about it.

Baudhayan

Baudhayan gave a lot of theorems and concepts of Mathematics. All of these were rediscovered by the western world. At first, he had calculated the value of Pi. Through the Pi, the areas and circumference of any circle could be easily calculated. In Baudhayana’s book Sulva Sutras, he has already given the Pythagorean Theorem.

AryaBhatta

He was the most famous Ancient Indian Scientist. He also played the main role in ancient Indian inventions. Like Baudhayan, Aryabhatta also calculated the value of Pi. According to AryaBhatta, the value of the Pi was 3.1416. In the 5th century AD, he was the most populous Astronomer, physicist, and  Astrologer. At the age of 23, he wrote a Book called “The AryaBhatiya.” It had a better explanation of Number theory, the decimal system, Trigonometry, Geometry, Algebra & Astronomy. 

Apart from this, Atryabhatta also invented the most notable zero value. This helped him to a great extent in getting the distance between the Moon and Earth. Our scientist Aryabhata had given more important hypotheses about space and the solar system. Apart from this, he also said that the earth is not immovable. Also, it gave the concept of Heliocentrism, in which all the planets revolve around the sun. It was also given the solar or lunar eclipse. Due to these great contributions and inventions, India’s first satellite launched in 1975 was named Aryabhatta.

Brahmagupta 

Bharmagupta was born in the 7th century AD. Brahmagupta had taken Mathematics to new heights. It also played the main role in ancient Indian inventions. Bharamgupta had launched the multiplication method, which is very similar to today’s modern multiplication method. Apart from this, he introduced a lot of operations related to zero in Mathematics. He also wrote a book named Bhram Saputa Siddhatika, from which Arabs learned about our Indian Mathematics System.

BhaskaraCharya 

BhaskraCharya was born in the 12th century, about 500 years from Brahmagupta. There used to be more leading Mathematicians of that time. He was born in the Bijapur district of Karnataka. He had written a very famous book named Siddhanta Shiromani in the 12th century AD. The book’s main advantage is one of four parts, which include Algebra, Arithmetic, Mathematics of the Planets, and the other is Spheres. BhaskaraCharya invented one of the easiest Cyclic methods to resolve the Algebra equations. 

Ancient Indian Scientists In Science 

There are some most famous Old Indian scientists and their inventions which play the main role in science. 

Kanada

Acharya Kanada was also named Kashyapa. He was the most famous scientist of ancient Indian time. He was a natural scientist and philosopher who developed the theory of atoms 2500 years prior to the discovery of the most famous scientist John Dalton. He established the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy, which displayed the earliest Indian physics.

Varahamihira 

He was another well-known Ancient Indian Scientist who was an astrologer, astronomer and polymath.

Conclusion 

There are approx 11 Ancient Inventions & Discoveries and other most important achievements Of Science that all the scientists are gifted to all over the world’s peoples. These inventions are the Pythagorean theorem (700 BC), Crucible steel (200BC), Plastic surgery (2000 BC), Ancient Dentistry (7000 BC), Ancient flush toilet systems (2500 BC), Ruler (2400 BC), etc. The article covers detailed information about the famous ancient scientists of India.