HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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revolved around the sun
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was the center of the universe
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was flat
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was shrinking
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian astronomer-mathematician Aryabhata ( 476– 550), in his magnum opus Aryabhatiya, propounded a heliocentric model in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and the periods of the planets were given with respect to a stationary Sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -He stated that day and night were caused by the rotation of the earth on its axis. He developed a scientific explanation for eclipses. He also found a way of calculating the circumference of a circle. He wrote how the Earth was not the centre of the universe, but in fact revolved around the Sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aryabhatta, the famous Indian mathematician who discovered zero was the one who declared that the Earth rotates on its own axis.