Veerasingham Dhuruvasangary

Veerasingham Dhuruvasangary (5 September 1950 - 2 December 2006) was a scientist and inventor born in Point Pedro, Sri Lanka. His father named him after the Pole Star, "Dhuruvan Natchathra". He was the last born of 12 children.

He was the brother of V. Anandasangary, a Tamil politician.

A Soil Research and Development Engineer (B.Sc, M.Sc. M. Phil). Dhuruvasangary received patents for such things as a microscope convertible into a telescope^[1] and a world clock and developed other inventions such as solar oven, and a device to measure snow and hail precipitation.

Dhuruvasangary attended Hartley College, and completed his M.Sc at Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, USSR in 1977 and M.Phil at Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka in 1983 (Assessment of Drainage Effects in the Mahaweli Area. M.Phil Thesis. PGIA, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka).

Books

He is the author of three books:

• Research Articles on Palymyrah Palm (1979),
• Lost Aviation Technology (1994) and
• En Muliyam Tamil (The Story of My Language, 2005; translated into English by Dhuruvasangary and C. Radhakrishnan).

The latter two were written and published after migrating to Canada. He wrote many articles and editorials on science and technology, archaeology, religion and history. He spent the majority of his life developing simple, low cost scientific and technological solutions to problems faced by regular people.

Central Thesis

The uniting thesis of his work was that pre-colonial ancient societies such as Sumeria, Indus Valley, Sri Lanka, Mesopotamia and so on, had complex science and technology, the content of which he developed utilizing all forms of evidence including archaeological, literary (especially myths) and religious practices. These, he argued, were forms of true science, which involved a process of verification placing the human factor first, as opposed to capitalist era pseudo-science, which uses profit as its measure of verification.

References

1. ^ The ornamental design for a combination telescope and microscope, Patent No. D342749

External links

• Eulogy
• Monsoon Journal

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Name	Dhuruvasangary, Veerasingham
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Date of birth	5 September 1950
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Date of death	2 December 2006
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