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Aryabhatiya
Aryabhata completes the Aryabhatiya, presenting mathematical methods and astronomical rules for calculating planetary positions.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kusumapura in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Aryabhata completes the Aryabhatiya, presenting mathematical methods and astronomical rules for calculating planetary positions.
Aryabhata gives a scientific explanation of solar and lunar eclipses using the shadows of Earth and the Moon.
Aryabhata explains the apparent daily motion of the stars by describing Earth as rotating on its axis.
Provenance
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