luchitociencia
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That is incorrect.Science was invented a long time before Galileo. The ancient Greeks had scientists. So did the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Chinese. So you're making a very ignorant statement.Except the notion that the earth was the center of the universe wasn't based upon science- and science hadn't even been invented yet.
That is like saying that the stories in the Bible were once considered settled science......
So your thread just doesn't make any sense.
The scientific method was not invented until the 17th century. The concept of the earth being the center of the universe was a matter of faith based upon the Bible- not based upon science.
The theory -because it was a theory- that the earth was the center of the universe was made thru observation without accurate calculation.
Aristotle argued against Pythagoras' disciples about this issue. The school of Pythagoras had the theory based on speculative calculations and observation that the earth and the rest of stars were the whole orbiting around a center of fire.
Aristotle, on the other hand, rejected such idea and proposed the earth as fixed without motion and the whole universe rotating around us.
(Take note that Pythagoras never wrote a single paper for posterity, everything we know about him is thanks to his disciples who followed his teachings for some more time, and thanks to Aristotle who mentioned him several times in his writings).
Ptolemy went further making very accurate calculations of the Sun orbiting earth.
Then, yes, it was an epoch in the far away past when it was a scientific approach the theory of the planets and stars orbiting around the earth.
A curiosity: using the Doppler Effect it has been found that practically almost the whole galaxies of the universe appear to be going away from us in all directions. This illusion caused by the motion of bodies observed from our angle of reference caused me laughs, and was funny making jokes saying that Aristotle was right after all...