Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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the month of March Galileo proved the earth to be rotating, and supported most of the arguments made by Copernicus. But Gelileo differed form Copernicus and proved that the Sun rotates on its axis takes month to complete one rotation.
In 1615 A.D. the Pope-the Head of the Roman Catholic Church-called Galileo to Rome and endeavoured to understand his theory.
Then the Pope appointed a Committee to know who was correct-Gelileo, Copernicus or Polemy. The committee regarded Galileo to be wrong, and his theories were banned.
In 1623 A.D. the old Pope expired and a new Pope came into authority. In this new Pope's regime Gelileo begai to propag and his theories but they were once again banned. Before: Galilio, a scientist Brooke by name, had also tried to propog and the theory that "the earth is round and it also moves around the Sur”
After the death of Brooke and Galileo their theory did not extinct, but became more and more widespread. Obstacles that came in the way of believing the earth not to be rotating were removed with help of reasoning.
(1) To adjust the daily and yearly motion of the earth,we have to believe that the earth is inclined at the angle of 23 1620
(2) It should be imagined that atmosphere all around the earth.
(Formely it was believed that atmosphere all around the earth is up to the height of 48 miles, but now-a-days it is believed to be prevailing upto the height of thousands and thousands of miles).
(3) The principle of force of Gravitation should be accepted.
Ancient inferences were sought to be compromised by accepting the principle of the force of Gravitation : as for example, how a bird flying in the Sky can come back to its own nest; why an arrow shot does not fail; why the violent winds do not spread destruction.
To solve problems as the following the Law of Gravitation is applied.
How can a fly go from one place to the other in a railway carriage of a running train ?-Here the motion of the fly as well as the
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