Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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Morover, the scientists believe the earth to be revoving around the Sun with a heavy speed of 66,000 miles per hour, so it covers a distance of 15,84,000 miles within 24 hours. It takes 183 days to go from the right of the Sun to its left, and it is a distance of 32,94,72,000 miles.
Even after going over such a long distance, how can it be possible to find the Pole in the same place ? Now, if we believe the earth to be steady and fixed instead of rotating, no questions about Pole Star will arise. URSA MAJOR OR THE GREAT BEAR:
In this very way from the motion of the cluster of seven stars-The Great Bear, it can be quite clearly understood that the earth does not move. It is like this:- The Great Bear has a circular motion like that of the Moon.
The Moon and other stars appear in the east early at night, but they all appear in the west early at dawn. If we, perhaps, believe the daily motion of the earth to be the reason of this, it cannot be regarded as the reason for the change in the direction of the Great Bear at early night and early dawn.
This point can be clearly understood after a minute observation for a day or two.
Here the point to be considered is -
The two foremost stars of the Great Bear move in a straight line parallel to the Pole Star. The remaining five stars move after the Great Bear like its tail. Therefore, the changes in the position of the five stars at the back are parallel to those in the first two stars. The first two stars control the movement of the remaining five stars.
Of the first two stars, the first one has a smaller field for motion; the second star has a larger field for motion than that of the first star. The field for motion of each subsequent star becomes gradually larger and larger. Thus the seventh star has the largest field of motion.
These stars occupy different direction during their motion in a single night. As for example, on the fifteenth day of the bright half
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