Why did the ancient thinkers think that the heavens went around earth?

Answer 1

It was important in the development of astronomy and science because it was the first model that aimed to predict how the planets move in their orbits. Despite being a complicated mix of circles and epicycles it was not a bad model and it worked well for at least 1500 years until observations became accurate enough to show its imperfections.

Answer 2

Why did people believe that the Sun went around the Earth? Because it's pretty obvious that it does. We're standing still, and we don't FEEL like we're moving, but the Sun and Moon and Stars sure LOOK like they are moving.

Which only goes to prove that the clear evidence of our own senses can lead us astray. We don't FEEL like we're moving, because the entire Earth and the atmosphere and the oceans are rotating with us. But we are, and it is the stars and Sun which are "standing still". Except that they aren't; NOTHING is standing still.

Answer 3

They nedded to explain everything in life and for the thing that there was no logical or proof answer they invented something take for example theyr mytologi, if you stand and look a the sun,stars,plants...ect it will apear to you that things move arround us cous yo don't fell or realize that the earth is moving.

Hope it helped open your mind about Greeks

Answer 4

From their point of view, the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. They could not gasp the concept of a oval shaped earth that rotated around the sun. Even today there are still a few people who think that the earth is flat and at the center of the universe. Standing on the earth it does seem as though the earth is flat and at the center of the universe. It took people a long time to realize that just because it looked flat, the earth was really oval shaped.

Answer 5

They were using Earth as a reference point for movement in space, rather than using the Sun as a reference point for Earth's movement. If you assumed Earth was still, then anything going around it would be moving.. around it.

Answer 6

Because they didn't have any scientific proof that it wasn't correct.

Answer 7

We still do. It's a matter of mass and gravitation.

Answer 8

I cannot tell you the layout of the old Solar System, but I can tell you that many people thought that the Earth was the center of the universe.

Answer 9

Because Aristotle, who may have been the wrong-est man ever to live, thought that it ought to be that way. Aristotle was a philosopher, not a scientist.

Answer 10

Because observation ... what you see with your own eyes whenever

you go outside and look up, whether day or night ... confirms it.