*"In India, we see the beginning of theoretical speculation of the size and nature of the earth. SGBome one thousand years before Aristotle, the Vedic Aryans asserted that the earth was round and circled the sun. A translation of the Rig Veda goes: " In the prescribed daily prayers to the Sun we find..the Sun is at the center of the solar system. ..The student ask, "What is the nature of the entity that holds the Earth? The teacher answers, "Rishi Vatsa holds the view that the Earth is held in space by the Sun." - Dick Teresi in Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya pages 238-239 โThe Sun does never set nor rise. When people think the Sun is setting (it is not so). For after having arrived at the end of the day it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other sideโฆHaving reached the end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making day to what is below and night to what is on the other side. In fact, the Sun never setsโฆ.โ- Aitareya Brahmana (3.44). This shows that the earth is spherical."* - *<http://ww.hinduwisdom.info/Advanced_Concepts.htm>*
