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Q: Who first discovered that earth moves round sun?
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Do earth moves round the sun according to Islam?

yes. it does.


What is the name of the special path that moves around the sun?

The Earth moves round the Sun in a path called an orbit. All the planets go round the Sun in their own orbits, that way they do not collide. For the Earth, one whole circle round the Sun takes exactly one year.


Who taught that the Earth is stationary and at the center of the universe with the Sun the Moon and the planets moving around Earth in perfect circles?

It was mentioned byEudoxus at first,thenanswer 2: The ancient Greeks knoew that planets do not move in simple circles and Ptolemy's model explains the orbits, which are slightly elliptical, by using circles on circles, in other words the Earth (for example) goes once round a small circle called an epicycle each year, while the centre of the epicycle, called the deferent, moves in a circle. In Ptolemy's theory the Sun moves round the Earth in that manner, while in Copernicus's theory the Sun stays still and the Earth moves.


Why are there new phases of the moon each night?

The phases of the moon are determined by how much of the moon we can see from earth. The amount of the moon we see is determined by how much of the suns light is reflected from it back to us. As the moon moves round the earth and the earth moves round the sun the amount of light that gets bounced back from moon changes because of its different possitions.


What do you call the path on which the Earth moves around the sun?

The name of the path the earth takes around the sun is known as the orbit. The earth takes slightly over 365 to complete its revolution round the sun.