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EzraThe "geocentric model" probably doesn't deserve the term "model"; isn't it OBVIOUS, just from being a farmer or shepherd, that the Sun and the Moon rise and set and go around the big flat Earth? Who needs an explanation for THAT!?!
And to be honest, until you are confronted with some alternative explanation, who needs a model? Some things ARE obvious, until you start to examine them closely. it isn't until you start looking at tiny details, like the way that the deck of a ship disappears while the sails are still visible, or that a tall lighthouse is visible further away than a short one, that there might be more to things than are obvious.
Until there was an explanation for the motion of the Sun and the Moon that involved the Earth going around the Sun, there wasn't any need to think of things any other way. And some of the clearest evidence of the "heliocentric model" isn't obvious AT ALL until you start looking at things very precisely.
To the extent that there is somebody who gets the blame (one can hardly give "credit" for an error) for defending the geocentric explanation, that person would probably be Aristotle. Aristotle single-handedly delayed the progress of science, astronomy, Biology and physics by at least a thousand years. If not for Aristotle, we would probably have colonies around the nearer stars by now, and our lives would be immeasurably longer and healthier. Read any of Aristotle's writings; every time he states a "fact", he's wrong, in EVERY particular. Aristotle may have been the "wrongest" man in history!
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