The Earth is round and rotates on its axis, which causes night and day, everyone knows this theory, but many people will be familiar with the reality that Aryabhatta had discovered long before ‘Nicholas Copernicus’. The Earth is round and its circumference is approximately 24835 miles.
Aryabhatta falsified the belief of Hinduism that the planet named Rahu swallows the sun and the moon, which eclipses the sun and the moon. In the lunar eclipse, he discovered the reason that the lunar eclipse occurs due to the arrival of the Earth between the Moon and the Sun and its shadow falling on the Moon.
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