Surya Siddhanta
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: How Saturn Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowAnd not too long after that, or around that time in India, the world's oldest astronomy book, the Surya Siddhanta, obviously the whoever wrote it was like, I'm going to try to guess the diameter of Saturn, and I don't think they guessed at it like, you know, how many jelly beans are in this jar kind of guess, like they used math and geometry and all sorts of great stuff.