Ancient Indians (Aryabhatt 476 CE, Acharya Kanad 600 BCE, etc) were the first to suggest a "heliocentric solar system" 1000 years before Copernicus published his theory

Ancient Indians (Aryabhatt 476 CE, Acharya Kanad 600 BCE, etc) were the first to suggest a "heliocentric solar system" 1000 years before Copernicus published his theory

1. Ancient Indians (Aryabhatt 476 CE, Acharya Kanad 600 BCE, etc) were the first to suggest a "heliocentric solar system" 1000 years before Copernicus published his theory. 
2. Speed of light was calculated as 1,85,016 miles/sec. 
3. They even calculated the distance between Earth and Moon as 108 diameters of Moon and Earth and Sun as 108 diameters of Sun (close to modern day values). 
4. All these were stated several thousand years before famous scientist Galileo postulated in the West that the sun was the center of the planetary system and Earth was not flat. 
5. Ancient Indians also calculated the age of the Earth as 4.3 billion years. The modern estimate is 4.5 billion years.
6. In india u say boogole to geography since ages which means earth is round