Titlebook: Our Place in the Universe - II; The Scientific Appro Sun Kwok Book 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 Astronomy for non-science major

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,The Human–Star Connection,. The position of the Sun in the zodiac constellations gives a reliable signal to farmers for when to plow, seed, harvest, and store their grains. It is not an accident that many ancient cultures worship the Sun god, because the Sun is the most important object in their lives.

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From Copernicus to Enlightenment, in the opposite horizon. The existence of these repeated patterns was believed to be a sign of divine governance and a source of messages from the gods. Motivated by the desire to decipher the hidden meaning of these patterns, our ancestors observed the movement of celestial objects with great diligence.

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Resolution of the Theoretical Objections to the Heliocentric Theory, the Earth is a natural motion (as it was interpreted by Copernicus) then a falling object would be left behind by the turning Earth. The fact that this is not observed was used as a strong argument against the rotation of the Earth.

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