What evidence do we have that shows the Earth's rotation?

Answer 1

1) Sun and stars, as mentioned above.

2) Focault's Pendulum - It swings in a straight arc, but appears to rotate around a circle. This is because the earth is actually spinning beneath it.

3) The fact that tides occur at regularly changing intervals.

4) When you are drunk, you can see the earth spinning, especially if you lie down and look at the ceiling,

5) Early man moved east, in the direction of Earth's rotation, from Africa to settle the Levant, Asia, and Australia, and then continued east to settle North America. Settlers from Europe only sailed west (against the earth's rotation) about 35,000 years later because it was much more difficult.

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Answer 2

The apparent movement of the sun across the sky, coupled with the apparent motion of stars in the sky at night is evidence of the rotation of the earth. The ancient philosophers saw this as evidence that the earth was the center of the universe.

Answer 3

all the stars and the Moon and the Sun move in the sky as the Earth rotates

Answer 4

Take a trip of several hundred miles east or west and see what happens to the times of sunrise and sunset. Or set up a Foucault pendulum.

Answer 5

THIS IS THE BEST ANSWER!!!

Flushed toilet water spins clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. This proves conclusively the earth is spinning!

Answer 6

The sun rises and sets. We have day and night. It gets cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer.

Answer 7

Neil Armstrong, on the moon, saw it all.

Answer 8

we have seen it from space and it has been recorded