HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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they practices inoculation
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they developed the number symbols we use today
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the accurately calculated the length of the solar year
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they translated the Ramayana into Sanskrit
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aryabhata I (ad 476) is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of ancient India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indian Astronomy and Vedas The ancient Indian astronomers used the stars and planets to create astrological charts and read omens, developing sophisticated mathematical models and many intriguing theories, many of which were passed down to the Islamic world and Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Galileo Galilei The astronomer (also mathematician, physicist and philosopher) turned the new observational tool toward the heavens, where he discovered the four primary moons of Jupiter (now known as the Galilean moons), as well as the rings of Saturn (opens in new tab).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian astronomers made accurate discoveries on earth’s rotation and direction of rotation; centuries before, European astronomers came up with such predictions explaining concepts of Earth’s rotation.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Surya Siddhanta is a text on astronomy and time keeping, an idea that appears much earlier as the field of Jyotisha (Vedanga) of the Vedic period.