With the wrong axes uncompensated centrifugal forces and uncompensated composite centrifugal forces appear, due to rotation.

The influence of these forces can be demonstrated by many facts on the earth's surface, Foucault's pendulum, the shape of the earth, the fixed directions of the rotations of cyclones and anticyclones.

It is difficult to take seriously the suggestion that these domestic phenomena on the earth are due to the influence of the fixed stars.

I cannot persuade myself to believe that a little star in its twinkling turned round Foucault's pendulum in the Paris Exhibition of 1861.

Of course anything is believable when a definite physical connexion has been demonstrated, for example the influence of sunspots.