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GRAVITATION - Indian tradition

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►The The school flourished between the 14th<br />

and 16th centuries and the original<br />

discoveries of the school seems to have<br />

ended with Narayana<br />

Bhattathiri<br />

(1559- (1559<br />

1632)<br />

►Their Their most important results—series<br />

results series<br />

expansion for trigonometric functions— functions<br />

were described in Sanskrit<br />

verse in a book<br />

by Neelakanta<br />

called Tantrasangraha, Tantrasangraha,<br />

and<br />

again in a commentary on this work,<br />

called Tantrasangraha--vakhya<br />

Tantrasangraha vakhya, , of<br />

unknown authorship

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