Under 'additions to the library, Tom posts a reference to
I came across a geocentric work by Professor C. Schoepffer in the year 1900 called The Earth Stands Fast.
Early on in the publication, there is a sub-title which reads 'Proofs that the Earth revolves neither upon its own axis nor yet about the Sun'
If that is the case then what is the
cause of the observed motion of the celestial bodies about the Earth? This motion is observed in real time when one looks through an undriven telescope. What
causes that motion if it is not the rotation of the Earth?
This concerns me because during the last 40 years that I have been showing people various targets through telescopes and they ask why the object is seen moving across the field of view, I have been telling them they are seeing the rotation of the Earth. It seems that I must have been (unintentionally) lying to them?