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Originally Posted by ultracapper
Just for accuracy sake, the helio-centric solar system has been something man has been aware of for over 5 millennia. The terra-centric (sun circles the earth) was a successful propaganda effort put forth during the early medieval period to support the European church's assertions that man was the center of everything and deserving of the creator's special attention.
There is no proof that any other human society outside of the Mediterranean regions ever believed the sun circled the earth. The sun circling the earth wasn't considered common sense, it was medieval Mediterranean arrogance and manipulation.
Having said that, the poster's point is taken.
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I can't speak for sure of the Asian world but at least in the West without the benefit of modern science it would have seemed common sense to primitive and ancient man to think the the Sun orbits the Earth long before the Medieval Church and it's ignorant dogma, the ancient Greeks thought the Sun was a fiery chariot driven across the sky by Apollo. It wasn't until Copernicus in the Renaissance that the idea of a helio-centric solar system come about. You are correct that the Medieval Church propagated the idea of a geocentric one to support its' dogma that God had put man at the center of the Universe but they were merely using an already established commonsensical belief.
Appreciate the thoughtful post, though.
