Possibly. But I believe the mechanism for the movement of the planets was believed to be crystal spheres. Another possibility is that the Pythagoreans actually

Possibly. But I believe the mechanism for the movement of the planets was believed to be crystal spheres. Another possibility is that the Pythagoreans actually described the earth rotating around a central fire or Hestia. If that wasn’t the sun, it might have been the center of the earth — and the counter earth was actually the antipodes. When you see the source texts describing these things, it is terribly vague. Yet, Copernicus described himself as bringing back the Pythagorean ideas—