[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918) › c13.6 # Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c13.6 Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c13.6 - **Language:** English ### [c13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13.6) (4) Accelerated motion of falling bodies: Prashastapada (fourth century, A.D.), the Doctor of Vaishesika philosophy, believed that in the case of a falling body there is the composition of gravity with \*vega\* (momentum) acting in the same direction from the second instant onwards. It is as if the two motions coalesced and resulted in one. "Here is a good foundation laid for the explanation of the accelerated motion of falling bodies; but Galileo's discovery was not anticipated as Galileo's observations and measurements of motion are wanting."⁵⁹ - [Previous: c13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13.5) - [Next: c13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13.7) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarkar-1918.c13.6) · Pramāṇa