"वराह मिहिर": अवतरणों में अंतर

वराहमिहिर का [[प्रकाशिकी]] में भी योगदान है। उन्होने कहा है कि [[परावर्तन]] कणों के प्रति-प्रकीर्णन (back-scattering) से होता है। उन्होने [[अपवर्तन]] की भी व्याख्या की है।<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/lectures/illustrations/lecture14/varahamihira.html |title=Varahamihira}}</ref>

 

1. ^ "the Pañca-siddhāntikā ("Five Treatises"), a compendium of Greek, Egyptian, Roman and Indian astronomy. Varāhamihira's knowledge of Western astronomy was thorough. In 5 sections, his monumental work progresses through native Indian astronomy and culminates in 2 treatises on Western astronomy, showing calculations based on Greek and Alexandrian reckoning and even giving complete Ptolemaic mathematical charts and tables. Encyclopædia Britannica (2007) s.v.Varahamihira ^