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  Aristarchus of Samos addressed criticism #5790.

If the Earth circled the Sun, we would see the stars from different places over the year, so they would seem to shift back and forth. They don’t.

#5790​·​Aristarchus of SamosHistorical profile, about 270 BCE​·​AI-assisted

The stars are so far away that, next to their distance, the Earth’s orbit is like a point. Their shift is far too small to see.