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There is no proof of earth of being the center but it was just a conjecture by the Greeks not unlike Darwin's Theory that human beings and apes have a common an
by teleforce 3y ago
There is no proof of earth of being the center but it was just a conjecture by the Greeks not unlike Darwin's Theory that human beings and apes have a common ancestor.
The Arabs and Muslim astronomers who's invented the modern telescopes for astronomy observations most probably have already proposed the original heliocentric model centuries before Copernicus [1],[2],[3]. The fact the largest astronomic institution the world have ever seen at the time, namely House of Wisdom in Baghdad and all the associated astronomy books were burnt down by the Mongols meaning that the later European scientists have to scrapped by whatever astronomy books that had survived or already brought over to Europe including Muslim Spain [3],[4].
[1]How Islamic scholarship birthed modern astronomy:
https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-islamic-scholarship-birthed-modern-astronomy/ https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-islamic-scholarship-bi...
[2]Arab astronomy: learning the language of stars:
https://wired.me/culture/arab-astronomy-the-language-of-stars/ https://wired.me/culture/arab-astronomy-the-language-of-star...
[3]How a Muslim invented the Telescope centuries before Galileo:
http://kn-ow.com/article/how-muslim-invented-telescope-245/ http://kn-ow.com/article/how-muslim-invented-telescope-245/
[4]How 9th century Baghdad revived astronomy:
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-9th-century-baghdad-revived-astronomy-13117197 https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-9th-century-baghdad-re...