Multiple choice general knowledge culture

Who had first rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun?

  1. Bhaskaracharya

  2. Smart

  3. Galileo

  4. Aryabhatta

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II), the 12th-century Indian mathematician-astronomer, accurately calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the Sun as 365.258756 days, remarkably close to the modern value of 365.256 days.