How India figured out the science of sound 17 centuries before the West did
Published on: May 31, 2026, 9:31 a.m. | Source: India Today
Science of Sound: Seventeen centuries before the German Hornbostel-Sachs system, India's Natya Shastra had already sorted every musical instrument by what vibrates inside it, and a Bengali scholar carried that science to Europe, which took the credit.
