Nota Aryabhatiya

  1. David Pingree, "Astronomy in India", in Christopher Walker, ed., Astronomy before the Telescope, (London: British Museum Press, 1996), pp. 127-9.
  2. The concept of Indian heliocentrism has been advocated by B. L. van der Waerden, Das heliozentrische System in der griechischen,persischen und indischen Astronomie. Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. Zürich:Kommissionsverlag Leeman AG, 1970. A detailed rebuttal to this heliocentric interpretation is in a review which describes van der Waerden's book as "show[ing] a complete misunderstanding of Indian planetary theory [that] is flatly contradicted by every word of Āryabhata's description." Noel Swerdlow, "Review: A Lost Monument of Indian Astronomy," Isis, 64 (1973): 239-243.