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Tycho Brahe criticized idea #5798.
#5798·Nicolaus CopernicusHistorical profile revised 1543·AI-assistedThe Earth is a planet. It spins once a day and circles the Sun once a year, as the other planets do, with the Sun near the center of it all.
If the Earth spun from west to east, a cannonball fired eastward would fly a different distance than one fired westward with the same force. I’m sure both would fly equally far, so the Earth doesn’t spin.