http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
Aristarchus's 3rd century BC calculations on the relative sizes of from left the Sun, Earth and Moon, from a 10th century AD Greek copy
I think his name was Aristarchus and he lived in Egypt.
The politically connected won the argument and so it was determined that the sun went around the earth.
That was the Politically Correct for then.
It took 1500 years for the Politically Correct dogma to be found wrong.
How long will the PC BS last this time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
Aristarchus's 3rd century BC calculations on the relative sizes of from left the Sun, Earth and Moon, from a 10th century AD Greek copy
Actually, the Copernican hypothesis was not finally confirmed by observations until the 18th Century. Even Copernicus was beguiled by the idea of the Circle being the “Perfect,” Kepler’s observations and mathematical advances made the solar model plausible, then the confirmations that followed Newton’s systemization, ended in showing that the new model was more accurate that the old, Ptolemaic system , which could not handle all the new data coming in.
“How long will the PC BS last this time?”
Another 1500 years if the IPCC “consensus” replaces the scientific method.