Acharya Kanada (6th Century BC).Acharya Kanada is considered to be the founder of "atomic theory". It was Kanada who 1st propounded the Paramanu (atom) was an indestructible particle of matter. He also discovered that the density of molecules is peculiar to each matter and so an object weighs less in water than in air, even earlier to Archimedes. Kanada has also described the dimension and motion of atoms and their chemical reactions with each other.
His primary area of study was Rasavādam, considered to be a type of alchemy. He is said to have believed that all living beings are composed of five elements: water, fire, earth, air, Aether (classical element). Vegetables have only water, insects have water and fire, birds have water, fire, earth and air, and Humans, the top of the creation, have ether—the sense of discrimination (time, space, mind) are one. He theorized that Gurutva was responsible for the falling of objects on the Earth. So, it can be said that he was the true inventor of formula of Gravity.
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