[Valgrim]

Keep in mind that there was nothing indicating that the sun and the stars were of the same nature, or that they were so far away. When you think about it, all stars appear equally distant to the naked eye, so the idea that stars were fiery stones dispersed on a vast celestial sphere was absolutely plausible. This solid, physical sphere was the thing rotating.

Also people had little understanding of the scale of things. There is nothing indicating that the moon is smaller than earth or that the sun is much, much bigger than earth, and both appear equally large in the sky...

[throw0101b]

> Also people had little understanding of the scale of things. There is nothing indicating that the moon is smaller than earth or that the sun is much, much bigger than earth, and both appear equally large in the sky...

The Ancient Greeks were actually quite clever about trying to calculate things:

* https://physicsteacher.blog/2021/05/31/from-the-earth-to-the...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Sizes_and_Distances_(Hippar...