geocentric worldview

astronomy

earth

egocentricity

Heliocentrism

is a worldlview which today is hard to even begin to picture. It's hard to imagine the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames.

We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames... very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps. Anatole France

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