How did the Greeks inability to detect stellar parallax affect their view of the earth and universe?

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How did the Greeks inability to detect stellar parallax affect their view of the earth and universe?

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-12T18:47:09

Though Aristarchus of Samos (310 BC - 230 BC) proposed a Heliocentric theory much earlier than Copernicus, this idea was rejected because of the inability to detect stellar parallax.

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