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> Galileo said that in his book the rotation of the earth was causing the tide, which is factually wrong I thought the tide was caused by earth and moon rotati
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> Galileo said that in his book the rotation of the earth was causing the tide, which is factually wrong
I thought the tide was caused by earth and moon rotating about a common center, so how is that wrong?
- jenadine 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Tides https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Tides Galileo incorrectly claimed tides were caused by Earth's motion around the sun, ignoring the true cause: gravitational forces between the Earth and Moon, which were later explained by Newton