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The Solar Numbers in Angkor Wat
Subhash Kak
The great Vishnu temple at Angkor Wat in north-central Kampuchea (Cambodia) is known to have been built according to an astronomical plan. In this note we show that the little-unde…
physics.hist-ph1998
Early Theories on the Distance to the Sun
Subhash Kak
According to an ancient Indian text (c. 1700 BC?), the heavens are 1000 earth diameters away from the earth. Other texts took the sun to be halfway to the heavens, so this suggests…
physics.hist-ph1998
The Speed of Light and Puranic Cosmology
Subhash Kak
We survey early Indian ideas on the speed of light and the size of the universe. A context is provided for Sayana's statement (14th century)that the speed is 2,202 yojanas per half…