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Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Start.
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Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II), the 12th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer, calculated the orbital period of Earth as 365.2588 days, which is very close to the modern value. This was indeed centuries before European astronomers made similar calculations.