Francis Bacon und das Heliozentrische Weltbild

Popper schreibt, »Francis Bacon, for example, sneered at those who denied the self-evident truth that the sun and the stars rotated around the Earth, which was obviously at rest. Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume Two, chapter 11.II, p. 18 (ISBN 978-0-415-27842-3) Ich finde auf die Schnelle keinen Beleg dafür, nur einen Vorschlag Bacons, durch welche Beobachtungen man die Frage entscheiden könne: Let the nature investigated be the spontaneous motion of rotation, and in particular whether the diurnal motion whereby to our eyes the sun and stars rise and set, be a real motion of rotation in the heavenly bodies, or a motion apparent in the heavenly bodies, and real in the earth.