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Well if you want to be pedantic, they both revolve around their centre of mass, sort of (complicated by the fact that there are many other bodies influencing the motion).

But the intuitive view referred to in the article is that the sun revolves around the Earth once per day, as observed from Earth. That you cannot make work by fancy maths, without running into conclusions which contradict other observations.




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