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our medieval ancestors from almost all around the world (mostly Europe) believed that god created earth and placed it at the center of the universe.they thought that the earth was the center of the whole universe let alone the solar system. this was the order of the solar system in which they believed

  • earth(center)
  • moon(1st)
  • Mercury(2Nd)
  • Venus(3rd)
  • sun(4th)
  • mars(5th)
  • jupiter(6th)
  • saturn(7th)

also note that uranus and neptune are not in this list as they were discovered from the sixteenth century onwards

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