Aryabhatta's ideas about eclipses and the sun being the source of moonlight may not have caused much of an impression on阿雅巴塔有关日蚀和太阳是月亮的光源这些思想在欧洲天文学家中没有引起很大注意,因为他们是从哥白尼和伽俐略得知这些的。
As years passed, news of the ideas of Copernicus spread through universities of Europe.光阴茬苒,有关哥白尼学说的消息在欧洲的大学里广为流传。
But considering that Aryabhatta discovered these facts 1,500 years ago, and 1,000 years before Copernicus and Galileo ma考虑到阿雅巴塔在1,500年前就发现了这些事实,比哥白尼和伽俐略早1,000,他也是这个领域的先锋。
Clockwise from top left is a collage of Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Descartes, and Ptolemy. (Images courtesy of从左上顺时钟方向依序为:克卜勒,哥白尼,牛顿,伽利略,笛卡儿,托勒密。(图片来源:美国国会图书馆及美国太空总署。)
For example, in1543 as a time when most people believed that the sun and the planets circled around the earth, a man nam例如,在1543年,就在大多数人相信太阳和其他行星是绕地球运转的时候,有一个叫哥白尼的人却提出,地球和其他行星是绕太阳运转的。