Ko te pūnaha Pythagorean kua kua whakahuatia; whakapono etahi Pythagoreans te whenua ki te kia tetahi o te maha aorangi haere a tawhio noa te ahi pokapū. Hicetas ko Ecphantus, e rua Pythagoreans o te rau tau 5 BC, ko Heraclides Ponticus i roto i te rau tau 4 BC, whakapono e hurihia te whenua i runga i tona tuaka, engari i noho i roto i te pokapū o te ao. taua pūnaha tonu tohu rite geocentric. i whakaarahia te reira i roto i te Middle Ages e Jean Buridan. Heraclides Ponticus kotahi i whakaaro ki te kua whakaarohia e haere e rua Venus ko Mercury a tawhio noa te Sun, engari e kore te Earth, engari e kore e whakaaetia tenei. Marus Capellatia whakanohoia tino a tawhio noa Mercury ko Venus i roto i te Sun. tuhituhi te nuinga o te mahi radical o Aristarchus o Seleucus. Ko ia he heliocentric, e kore kua ora i runga i te heliocentrism, a Heraclides Ponticus i roto i te rau tau 4 BC, i whakapono
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