Ancient Indian traditional and scientific thought on plants: Sir JC Bose and Vrikshayurveda

  • 01/04/2009

  • Asian Agri-History

The 150th birth anniversary of one of the greatest physicists of India, Sir JC Bose was celebrated in 2008. His paper "On the similarity of effect of electric stimulus on inorganic and living substances" presented in 1900 in Paris, France remains a classic today. Bose's studies refelected Vedic thoughts. In this paper, the authors have made an effort to highlight those thoughts expressed in ancient Vedic literature, which have a bearing on Bose's studies.