Denis Diderot (1713-84)

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Denis Diderot (1713-84) he was a prominent French figure in what became known as The Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie. He was also a novelist, satirist, and dramatist. Diderot was enormously influential in shaping the rationalistic spirit of the 18th century.

He suggested in his article on India that the “sciences may be more ancient in India than in Egypt.”

(source: Searching for Vedic India – By Devamrita Swami p. 164).

379. Andrew Tomas (1906- 2001) was an Australian UFO pioneer, author of several books including Mirage of the Ages: A Critique of Christianity and We Are Not The First and On the shores of endless worlds: The search for cosmic life and Beyond the Time Barrier has written:

"A thousand years before the childish image of the earth drawn by Cosmas Indicopleustes, a scholar-explorer of the 6th century, in his Christian Topography, philosophers had a different and much more accurate idea of the shape of the earth.

Until the second part of the 19th century scholars and clerics of the West thought that the earth was but a few thousand years old. Yet ancient Brahmin books, estimated the Day of Brahma, the life-span of our universe, to be 4.32 billion years. This figure is close to that of our astronomers, who calculate it to be about 4.6 billion years. "

" The atomic structure of matter is mentioned in the Hindu treastises Vaisesika and Nyaya. The Yoga Vasishta says: “There are vast worlds within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the specks in a sunbeam.”

"The Indian sage Uluku proposed a hypothesis over 2,500 years ago that all material objects were made of paramanu, or seeds of matter. He was then nicknamed Kanada, or the swallower of grains."

"The sacred writings of ancient India contain descriptions of weapons which resembled atomic bombs. The Mausola Parva speaks of a thunderbolt – “a gigantic messenger of deaths” – which reduced to ashes whole armies and caused the hair and nails of the survivors to fall out. Pottery broke without any cause and the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were poisoned. The ghastly picture of Hiroshima comes to mind when one reads this ancient text from India."

“A blazing missile possessed of the radiance of smokeless fire was discharged. A thick gloom suddenly encompassed the heavens. Clouds roared into the higher air, showering blood. The world, scorched by the heat of that weapon, seemed to be in fever,” thus describes the Drona Parva – in The Mahabharat. One can almost visualize the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb explosion and atomic radiation.

"Another passage compares the detonation with a flare-up of ten thousand suns. In ancient times the day was divided into 60 kala, each equal to 24 minutes, subdivided into 60 vikala, each equal to 24 seconds. Then followed a further sixty-fold subdivision of time into para, tatpara, vitatpara, ima, and finally, kashta or 1/300,000,000 of a second. Is this reckoning of time a folk memory from a highly technological civilization? Without sensitive instruments the kashta would be absolutely meaningless. It is significant that the kashta, or 3 x 10-8 second, is very close to the life-spans of certain mesons and hypersons. This fact support the bold hypothesis that the science of nuclear physics is not new."

(source: We Are Not The First: Riddles of Ancient Science - By Andrew Tomas p. 15 - 49 and 49 - 55).