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Episode: How Saturn Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Published on January 3, 2025
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Surya Siddhanta
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And 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.
The podcast hosts are discussing the history of observations of Saturn. In this context, they mention the Surya Siddhanta as the oldest astronomy book, highlighting how its author attempted to calculate the diameter of Saturn using mathematics.