Yeah, a lot of people tend to forget that. The key point wasn't that one was a blind faith argument centered around religion and the other a shining bastion of scientific thought like people think. Its that one side was missing key data, that the concept of space might exist. When you can only process the direction "up" then its not hard to think everything you see above you is revolving around you. The data even fits since you aren't even thinking of looking at the half that disproves you. Just like Air had to be discovered, people didn't just start breathing one day, but they had no concept that there was something invisible there. They knew there was wind, they know there was smoke and poison and other contaminants OF the air. But they had no concept of Air itself.
Well it’s also the fact that the movement of the stars was studied so thoroughly but the instruments just weren’t sensitive enough to measure things like parallax correctly within our own solar system. The astronomical models with earth at the center were sophisticated and predicted cosmological movement better than early heliocentric models. It wasn’t really a lack of knowledge, it was a lack of precision.
Yeah, a lot of people tend to forget that. The key point wasn't that one was a blind faith argument centered around religion and the other a shining bastion of scientific thought like people think. Its that one side was missing key data, that the concept of space might exist. When you can only process the direction "up" then its not hard to think everything you see above you is revolving around you. The data even fits since you aren't even thinking of looking at the half that disproves you. Just like Air had to be discovered, people didn't just start breathing one day, but they had no concept that there was something invisible there. They knew there was wind, they know there was smoke and poison and other contaminants OF the air. But they had no concept of Air itself.
Well it’s also the fact that the movement of the stars was studied so thoroughly but the instruments just weren’t sensitive enough to measure things like parallax correctly within our own solar system. The astronomical models with earth at the center were sophisticated and predicted cosmological movement better than early heliocentric models. It wasn’t really a lack of knowledge, it was a lack of precision.