I know it's a very common meme about geocentrism, but heliocentric models which would be pretty familiar to us existed all the way back ~300 BC [1] and potentia

I know it's a very common meme about geocentrism, but heliocentric models which would be pretty familiar to us existed all the way back ~300 BC [1] and potentially were on par with Copernicus' work ~150BC [2]. The geocentric interpretation was largely forced due to religious dogma and not due to a belief that it was simpler. It's honestly crazy how close people 2000 years ago were to a more contemporary understanding of the universe and how all that became lost and suppressed for ~1500 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos?&useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos?&useskin=... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_of_Seleucia?&useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_of_Seleucia?&useskin=...