Copernicus and Galileo, who are credited (perhaps in slightly overstated fashion) with entirely recontextualizing our place in the universe, are thought of in this way, but the reality is that most seemingly revolutionary thinkers were less people who ran in a different direction from everyone else, and more people who saw the trail ahead more clearly and could take the next few steps for us.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Review
That the sun lies at the center of the solar system with the planets moving about it and the whole arrangement determined by gravity seems obvious to us today, but that is because we are surrounding by depictions of the solar system in that configuration.
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