Exercise

• We now “know” that  1. The earth rotates on its axis 2. The earth revolves about the sun 3. The moon revolves about the earth

• Can one prove just from observations on the earth that:

• The earth revolves about the sun?

• How do we “know” ?

But yet:

• The moon revolves about the earth?

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