[asa] geocentricity

Wayne made a few comments that triggered some questions in my mind. The ASA office has been receiving a steady stream of documents from the geocentric society folks. Perhaps the historians of science on this list can help explicate a few questions.

1. What was the data cited as evidence for geocentricity prior to the Kepler/Copernicus era? Would it qualify as a "data-verified theory" as we think of it today?

2. What is today the most direct and simplest data/observation that proves heliocentricity? What was the first such argument?

3. What is today the most direct and simplest data/observation that shows the earth rotates on its axis? Was Foucault's demonstration of the latitude-dependence of the coriolis force the first such evidence?

Randy

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Received on Wed Jul 4 20:44:57 2007