alleryWho revised Aryabhata's model for Mercury and Venus in 1500?
AMadhava Sangamagrama
BNilakantha Somayaji
CNarayana Pandit
DBhaskara the First
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Nilakantha Somayaji
1. In 1500 the Tantrasamgraha revised Aryabhata's elliptical model for two planets.
2. Its author was Nilakantha Somayaji.
3. His equation of the centre stayed most accurate until Kepler in the 17th century; Madhava lived earlier.
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