“In the same way that someone in a boat going forward sees an unmoving
[object] going backward, so [someone] on the equator sees the unmoving stars going uniformly westward. The cause of rising and setting [is that] the sphere of the stars together with the planets [apparently?] turns due west at the equator, constantly pushed by the cosmic wind.”
________Aryabhata_________
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