The ancient greeks knew that it was possible for The Earth to orbit The Sun. They went for the geocentric model, because their math predicted that if The Earth orbited The Sun, then the other stars were “impossibly far” away from us.
Which TBF, is an accurate description of what is actually occuring. A single light year is impossibly far, much less the actual distances involved.
The ancient greeks knew that it was possible for The Earth to orbit The Sun. They went for the geocentric model, because their math predicted that if The Earth orbited The Sun, then the other stars were “impossibly far” away from us.
Which TBF, is an accurate description of what is actually occuring. A single light year is impossibly far, much less the actual distances involved.
It also wouldn’t be possible to prove heliocentrism until the invention of the relatively advanced telescopes of the 16th and 17th centuries.