“Ironically, when Aristarchus proposed the heliocentric model, his contemporaries dismissed it, on the grounds that they did not observe any parallax effects...”
“ so the heliocentric model would have implied that the stars were an absurdly large distance away.”
“Ironically, when Aristarchus proposed the heliocentric model, his contemporaries dismissed it, on the grounds that they did not observe any parallax effects...”
“ so the heliocentric model would have implied that the stars were an absurdly large distance away.”
“[Which, of course, they are.]”