> Yes, the lack of star parallaxes were the main argument offered by Tycho Brahe against a moving earth theory. Much earlier than Brahe. Aristotle in De Caelo

> Yes, the lack of star parallaxes were the main argument offered by Tycho Brahe against a moving earth theory. Much earlier than Brahe. Aristotle in De Caelo (Book II, part 14): > The earth, then, also, whether it move about the centre or as stationary at it, must necessarily move with two motions. But if this were so, there would have to be passings and turnings of the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens