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True Valor
He built a sundial the height of a nine-storey building, then used it to check the latest European astronomy, and found mistakes.
Sawai Jai Singh II is remembered for building a city. Jaipur was laid out on a grid, on paper, before a stone was cut. It is one of the first planned cities in India and it still works.
But the city was not what he cared about most. What he cared about was the sky.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.