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Van_GOOOOOUGH t1_j4krj6u wrote

If the truths about the solar system that this guy discovered in the third century BC had been recorded & maintained and taught throughout the centuries, mankind would have been a lot further ahead in our understanding of our place in the universe.

But instead some religion decided to start teaching everyone that the Earth was the center of the universe and it took centuries for scientists & religions to straighten all that out again.

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HazelFrederick t1_j4kwl0o wrote

The overwhelming opinion of pre Christian philosophers before and after Aristarchus was a geocentric universe, and Christian beliefs about the universe were directly borrowed from Plato and Aristotle.

The Church fucks up lots of things but they don’t get the lion’s share of the blame here.

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