Answer:
due to the magnetic field
Explanation:
magnetic field is the same in the vacuum
It takes work to push charge through a change of potential.
There's no change of potential along an equipotential path,
so that path doesn't require any work.
He reasoned that since parallax could not be observed for celestial objects near the sun, then the earth was stationary. This erroneous assumption was because at the time he had no way of knowing that celestial objects were so far away that their parallax angles were too small to detect.