Pseudoscience/Heliocentricism: Difference between revisions

(India) The Aitareya Brahmana '''states''' that "The sun does never set nor rise. When people think the sun is setting (it is not so)." (Sounds Geocentric, but he is given credit towards the heliocentric origins)

 

(India) Aryabhata, in his magnum opus Aryabhatiya (499), '''propounded''' (To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose.) a planetary model in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and the periods of the planets were given with respect to the Sun. His immediate commentators, such as Lalla, and other later authors, rejected his innovative view about the turning Earth. He also made many astronomical '''calculations''', such as the times of the solar and lunar eclipses, and the instantaneous motion of the Moon. Early followers of Aryabhata's model included Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II.