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Chapter 1, Figure 20
Figure
1.20
Motion of
the Earth around the Sun causes stellar parallax. Because the stars are so
remote, this is too small to be seen by the naked eye. Thus the ancient Greeks
incorrectly deduced that the Sun could not be the center of the Solar System.
