Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

Author(s): Abhaysagar
Publisher: Jambudvi Vignyan Research Centre

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ship is motionless or steady, but that experience is merely an illusion; but others (occupying another ship or standing on the bank or shore) feel the the ship sails. The reasoning refutes the argument that ship is steady.
It is not easy to decide with the evidence of experience that the earth rotates, because no inseparable characteristic of that sort can be traced. If one argues that the constellations and mid-day occur because the earth rotates, and this is the inseprable characteristic, then it is not at all proper because then it becomes supported by evidence.
If anybody says that fire is matter because it is hot, then he has also to believe that water is matter because it is cold. According to this argument, like heat coldness also because the comes of the proof of matter.
If this way though the earth is motionless, one becomes convinced of sunrise and sunset because of the rotation of the constellations and this is also believable.
-"Shree Tatvarthasootta" 'Shloka Vartik' chapter 4
(6) "The earth does not rotate. The earth has heaviness and elasticity. It can therefore, not move. That which moves cannot be heavy and elastic e.g. fire and air. Air has no heaviness, therefore, it is not steady.Fire has no elasticity, therefore it is not steady. This is not the case with the earth. The earth,therefore, does not rotate."
-'Soorya Gati Vigyan,'p.8
MORDEN SCIENCES:
Let us now consider the belief of morden scientists.
So far as the Holy Bible is concered the theory that the earth is round has been firmly adhered to. In those countries astronomers,astrologers and mathematic i am belived in the motionlessness of the earth. Of them Aristotle and Ptolemy are well-known.
But in the 16th century A.D. Copernicus substantiated the earth to be rotating and the Sun to be steady. In 1611 A.D. in
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