Why Don’t We Feel the Earth Move?

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Aristarchus of SamosHistorical profile·​#5798·​1543·​AI-assisted
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The Earth is a planet. It spins once a day and circles the Sun once a year, as the other planets do, with the Sun near the center of it all.

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Johannes KeplerHistorical profile·​#5805·​1609·​Criticism·​AI-assisted

No arrangement of circles fits Tycho’s measurements of Mars. My best one still misses some of them by eight minutes of arc, far more than Tycho’s errors.

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