Abstract
Until relatively recently in the history of civilization, we believed tenaciously that we occupy a special position in the scheme of things, and the early cosmologies (theories of the nature of the universe) that were developed before the time of Copernicus enforced that belief. If, as we then believed, mankind is important to the proper running of the universe, what was more natural than to conclude that Earth is at the very center of the universe and that all the other heavenly bodies were placed in the sky for the glorification of God and man? That all the naked-eye evidence seemed to agree with such a concept strengthened the hold of these early theories and made it exceedingly difficult and even dangerous to advocate anything that threatened the belief in this favored position of Earth.
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