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172 JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCILACE are proof of materialism” In the same way, by the rotation of Constellations and by the immobility of earth, sunrise and sunset, etc will occur
Before the discoveries made by the western world, there was in India, an absolute domination of the believers of the immobility of the earth
The supporters of "Earth's rotation" could not succeed in providing satisfactory explanations to the arguments against their view, and hence the Theory of the Earth's Rotation could not develop in this country The supporters of "Earth's immobility" on the other hand could explain satisfactorily all the arguments put to them
The Western World
In the western world also, as far as the religious books like Bible are concerned, we find the earth to have been fanatically accepted to be at rest Many of the astronomers and mathematicians also, of which Aristotle and Ptolemy are the most famous ones, supported the same view In the 16th Century, first of all Copernicus showed the earth to be in motion and the sun to be at rest. And Gallio supported this view by various proofs, as he could view the solar system, for the first time, with his telescope His revolutionary voice crossed great distances in the western world; but, Pope considered this theory to be a blasphemy. As a result, Gallio had to suffer many calamities from states but his theory was not curbed
