Great points. For a quick summary I suggest reading the highest rated answer to this Physics SE question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26291/why-

Great points. For a quick summary I suggest reading the highest rated answer to this Physics SE question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26291/why-did-the-ancients-fail-to-discover-that-the-earth-orbits-the-sun?rq=1 https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26291/why-did-th.... The keypoint that most people fail to realize is that "Ironically, geocentrism persisted because the ancients were decent scientists and were unimpressed by (pre-Kepler) heliocentrism's failure to support itself with observational data."