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Who anticipated Newton by declaring that all things gravitate to the earth?

  1. Brahamgupta

  2. Aryabhatta

  3. Varahamihira

  4. Budhagupta
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Explanation

Aryabhata, the renowned Indian astronomer and mathematician (476-550 AD), proposed that Earth rotates on its axis and that bodies gravitate toward Earth. In his work 'Aryabhatiya,' he discussed the concept of gravity centuries before Newton. Brahmagupta later formalized gravitational theory more explicitly in the 7th century.

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