Mahendra Suri, the court astronomer of ………………mentions about an astrolabe, a combination of two semi-circular board instrument giving rise to a ‘scissor instrument’.

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• Mahendra Suri of 14th century wrote the astronomical work called ‘Yantra Raja’ in verse in……………….
• ……………….was a polymath and astronomer, who created a celestial atlas of star maps and prepared a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy and metallurgy.
• Aryabhatta of ……………. century AD, author of ‘Aryabattiya’ and ‘Aryabhata Sidhanta’, was the significant astronomer of early medieval India.
• ……………….. an astronomer from Kerala wrote, ‘Sphuta nirnaya’ which details an elliptical correction to the existing notions.
• ………………. invented the ‘Phalaka Yantra’ which consisted of a rectangular board with a pin and index arm, which was used to determine the time from the sun’s position.
• It was during the Early Middle Ages that the world witnessed the rise, growth and decay of the ………………dynasty stared by Emperor Charlemagne, which could fill the power vacancy that had existed since the fall of the Roman Empire.
• With the fall of the………………, power once again shifted to the provinces and paved way for the rise of regional kingdoms, known in Chinese history as the period of ‘Five Dynasties’ and ‘Ten Kingdoms’.
• ……………….. court was the centre of a cultural revival that is sometimes referred to as the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’, till its break up towards the end of the 10th century.
• ……………… court in Aachen was the centre of cultural revival that is sometimes referred to as the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’.
• Emperor ……………..had split the Roman Empire into two separate administrative regions, the Eastern and Western halves, towards the end of the third century itself.