who did first promulgated the idea of the rotation of the earth
Earth's rotation Among the ancient Greeks, several of the Pythagorean school believed in the rotation of the earth rather than the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens. Perhaps the first was Philolaus (470â€“385 BCE), though his system was complicated, including a counter-earth rotating daily about a central fire.[3]
Buddhism in Southeast Asia
Council of Trent These decrees were later supplemented by the First Vatican Council of 1870.
Natural and legal rights According to Locke there are three natural rights:
Religio The Latin term
Heliocentrism Early in the 11th century Alhazen wrote a scathing critique of Ptolemy's model in his Doubts on Ptolemy (c. 1028), which some have interpreted to imply he was criticizing Ptolemy's geocentrism,[33] but most agree that he was actually criticizing the details of Ptolemy's model rather than his geocentrism.[34] Abu Rayhan Biruni (b. 973) discussed the possibility of whether the Earth rotated about its own axis and around the Sun, but in his Masudic Canon, he set forth the principles that the Earth is at the center of the universe and that it has no motion of its own.[35] He was aware that if the Earth rotated on its axis, this would be consistent with his astronomical parameters,[36] but he considered it a problem of natural philosophy rather than mathematics.[31][37]