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dian physicist and plant physiologist who did pioneering
growth and the re- to Jagadish
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was an In-

Original Experimental Equipment Created by Bose
Life of Jagadish Chandra Bose
Researches in Plant Life and Metals

of plant The life and scientific career of Jagadish Chandra Bose are rooted in the social ferment and the vital na- tionalism that made Bengal the intellectual center of In- dia in the 19th century. He was born on Nov. 30, 1858, at Mymensingh (now in East Bengal), where his father was the traditional village school to give him a grounding in Indian culture and then to St. Xavier's school and colleg

the measurement sponsiveness of plants to external stimuli. a deputy magistrate. The elder Bose sent

in entific interests.

work

dustrial revolution and Darwinism and would not have
soul. Thus, Bose in his concluding words to his book
have been acceptable “or politically correct one” for
dicting future results. The facts speak for themselves.
essential that would non-material statement Bose’s con- A conscious being
ground arrangement of it. Bose’s interpretation of the
how nature works and the back-
tation of facts or a model that may be helpful in pre-
From such data one can formulate an interpre-
the British scientists to whom he presented his find-
ings. They were firmly rooted in the mechanistic, in-
Bose’s Plant Research Continued
However, the interpretation of the facts is
made an emphatic consistent behavior of plant and animal tis- sue with that of metals to external stimuli did not im- ply an “unknowable and arbitrary vital force.” By the phrase “vital force” he refers to the soul. He attribut- observed working of laws that know no change, acting equally and uniformly throughout the organic and inorganic When the individual soul, jivatma or the Super- soul, is present in a material body or substanc
is one a phenomena to “the non-material phenomenon of animal, plant and inor-
Bose seriously if he spoke of

for understanding facts that he gathered, however, of Plants,” “Irritability the of the ed the origin ture that act on consistent with his observations. ter. Consciousness is a or the soul. have observed the death

taken that matter.” present