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  Tycho Brahe addressed criticism #5791.

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.

#5791​·​Aristarchus of SamosHistorical profile, about 270 BCE​·​AI-assisted

Even my instruments, precise to a minute of arc, show no shift of the stars. So they would have to be at least 700 times farther from the Sun than Saturn is, leaving an absurd empty gap in between.