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What did Indian scientists achieve in astronomy and mathematics during the Gupta period?
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- The invention of Zero and the consequent evolution of the decimal system to the modern world.
- Aryabhatta explained the true causes of solar and lunar eclipses. He was the first Indian astronomer to declare that the earth revolves around its own axis.
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