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Download Solution PDFWhich of the following was not discovered by Aryabhatta?
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UGC NET Paper-2: History 9th Oct 2020 Shift 1
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Option 3 : The earth revolves around the sun
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Download Solution PDFAryabhatta was not discovered "The earth revolves around the sun".
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- Aryabhatta was the first Indian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Kusumpur in Pataliputra (Bihar).
- He did many discoveries like algebraic identities, trigonometrical functions, the value of pi, the Place value system, Theory of eclipses.
- He worked on the approximation for pi to 3.1416.
- Aryabhata also explained the solar and lunar eclipses in his book.
- The shadow of the earth falling on the moon causes eclipses.
- Aryabhata provided elegant results for the summation of a series of squares and cubes.
- His works include the Aryabhaṭiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-Siddhanta.
- The great discovery that the Earth rotates around its own axis from west to east is recorded in the Aryabhatiya.
- Aryabhata did solve quadratic and indeterminate equations, and provided an extremely accurate approximation for “pi”.
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