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Jagadish Chandra Bose And Vedantic Science, C. Mackenzie Brown May 2016

Jagadish Chandra Bose And Vedantic Science, C. Mackenzie Brown

C. Mackenzie Brown

'The real is one: wise men call it variously.' Utilizing this celebrated declaration of the Rig Veda as an epigraph in his first scientific monograph, Response in the Living and Non-Living, (1902), the audacious Indian physicist Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) intimated to the Western scientific world that his electrographic discovery of the unity of life - that the animate and the inanimate world are one - was an affirmation of the insights of the ancient Vedic seers.