Aryabhata

476 AD - 550 AD

Aryabhata or Aryabhata I was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya and the Arya-siddhanta.
For his explicit mention of the relativity of motion, he also qualifies as a major early physicist.
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“In the same way that someone in a boat going forward sees an unmoving [object] going backward, so [someone] on the equator sees the unmoving stars going uniformly westward. The cause of rising and setting [is that] the sphere of the stars together with the planets [apparently?] Turns due west at the equator, constantly pushed by the cosmic wind.”

Aryabhata
476 AD - 550 AD

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