"Just as an iron ball surrounded by pieces of magnet does not fall through standing (supportless) in the sky, in the same way this Earth though supportless does not fall."
— Magnetism

January 1, 1970

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Vatesvara in his book called Gola, quoted in C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007