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Champioli t1_j4kvewz wrote

He wasn't the first to propose a Heliocentric model. Indian astronomers did that in the 8th and 9th Centuries BC.

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HazelFrederick t1_j4kw3nj wrote

Yep for most of the western “firsts” in astronomy there’s some evidence of them learning it from, or discovering it after, Babylonians or Persians. They in turn often learned it from Indians or Chinese.

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AirborneRodent t1_j4n9icy wrote

Do you have a source on that? Most of the information I'm seeing dates Indian heliocentrism to the 3rd or 4th Centuries CE.

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