At the centre of the universe

Against the view that the geocentric view of the universe before Copernicus was a mark of human arrogance

There are many views of the ancient and medieval Western world that don't really stand up to the evidence. One of my favourite, and among the most enduring, is that according to which the worldview before the Copernican-Galilean ‘revolution’ was not only incorrect, but the ultimate expression of human self-centredness, arrogance and presumption. That th…