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19 July, 12:21

How did Aristotle's inability to detect parallax lead him to propose a geocentric model of the solar system?

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  1. 19 July, 12:47
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    He reasoned that since parallax could not be observed for celestial objects near the sun, then the earth was stationary. This erroneous assumption was because at the time he had no way of knowing that celestial objects were so far away that their parallax angles were too small to detect.
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