Talk:Indian astronomy
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Please do not mess "Astronomy" and "Cosmology" again. They are entirely different things. deeptrivia (talk) 02:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some points you could add
The school of Pythagoras definitely had the idea of the Earth not being the centre. Some of its rules suggest some sort of link with Hinduism: "They lived at the school, owned no personal possessions and were required to assume a vegetarian diet." Also their theory of the transmigration of souls, another common point and with no other cases I know about existing at the time.
Regarding the speed of light, the claim arouses scepticism because there is no obvious way they could have known. Unless they developed telescopes and used something like Ole Rømer's method based on the moons of Jupiter.
--GwydionM 20:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
