We all know that the path of all Celestial Bodies is Elliptical. But, let's see how our ancient Indian scientists(rishis) were responsible for this dicovery.
Let us have a look on the slokha from Rigveda 1.164.2 which was written by Indian rishis long long ago............
Given below is the slokha and its translations.....................
The elliptical path through which all the celestial bodies move is imperishable and unslakened.
This is called Trinabhichakram because to form an ellipse three points are required. Ellipse is the path of a point that moves so that the sum of its distances from two fixed points called foci is constant.
[In the western astronomical tradition upto the age of Copernicus (1473-1543), it was believed that the planets and other celestial bodies had circular orbits. Later, Johannes Kepler proposed a new theory in 1609. According to him the path of all the planets and other celestial bodies is elliptical.]
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