Re: GREAT INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES BY HINDUS .........

On Sep 26, 12:02 am, CYBERHINWA <cyberhi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://greatindiandiscoveries.blogspot.com/

Great Inventions and Discoveries by Indians:
===================================

3. Duration of the day at poles
Gola 16: The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (north
pole) see one half of the Bhagola (celestial sphere with its centre at
the centre of the earth) as revolving from left to right (i.e.,
clockwise); the demons living in the south at Badvâmukha (south pole)
see the other half rotating from right to left (i.e., anti-clockwise).

No; those at the South pole see rotation in the same direction.
Ancient Indians didn't know a damn thing about the southern hemisphere
anyway.

Gola 17: The gods (at the north pole) see the sun after sunrise for
half a solar year; so do the demons (at the south pole). Those living
on the moon see the sun for half a lunar month; the humans here see it
for half a civil day.

No; those living on the dark side of the moon don't see the Sun at
all.

4. Heliocentrism
Aryabhata claims that the Earth turns on its own axis and some
elements of his planetary epicyclic models rotate at the same speed as
the motion of the planet around the Sun. Some interpreters claims that
Aryabhata's calculations were based on an underlying heliocentric
model in which the planets orbit the Sun.

He correctly explained the causes of solar and lunar eclipses. Yet,
astrologers continued to assume the existence of Rahu and in my
lifetime, I've come across people who believed that Rahu causes an
eclipse by swallowing the moon. Saracenic astronomers explained the
change of season according to a model where the earth's rotation axis
is tilted relative to its plane of revolution and calculated the tilt
reasonably accurately.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: happy september solar equinox
    ... this is when the sun is directly over the equator at noon, ... at the north pole, till around march 21st when the sun rises over the ... the north pole all year around, & supposedly at south pole, but south ...
    (alt.gathering.rainbow)
  • happy september solar equinox
    ... this is when the sun is directly over the equator at noon, ... at the north pole, till around march 21st when the sun rises over the ... the north pole all year around, & supposedly at south pole, but south ...
    (alt.gathering.rainbow)
  • Surprises from the Suns South Pole (Forwarded)
    ... Surprises from the Sun's South Pole ... Although very close to the minimum of its 11-year sunspot cycle, ... The solar storms, which were confined to the equatorial regions, produced ... it measured the temperatures of the large polar coronal holes. ...
    (sci.astro)
  • Re: Planets and Stars - an idea
    ... For 90 of those days, at a minimum, the south pole does not ... progressively until the Sun reaches a point of 23.5 degrees (and the ... Earth has to move in some way, which is where the theories are ... most of that half-Earth is in the southern hemisphere. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.science)
  • Re: happy september solar equinox
    ... i'm made to believe at noon the sun is directly overhead, ... at the north pole, till around march 21st when the sun rises over the ... except light that was in on humans daylight savings time & its ...
    (alt.gathering.rainbow)