10 Bizarre Things We Used To Believe

The universe is big. Really, REALLY big. In the grand scheme of things the Earth is a speck in the greater grand galactic picture. It's a bit depressing to realise how insignificant our planet actually is, but it's at least accurate.

Rather than acknowledge our universal insignificance we could all just believe in Geocentrism and pretend we're the centre of attention.

Geocentrism is, to put it simply, the idea that the Earth is the centre of the universe. This was the endearingly naive belief our ancestors held which placed our Earth, and by extension humanity, in the centre of everything.

The concept of Earth as the centre of the universe was championed by the greatest minds of the time like Aristotle and Ptolemy. Though certain aspects of their observations were correct - the idea of bodies revolving around each other - they were overall miles off.

Copernicus is credited with changing the belief that the Earth was the centre of the universe. His theory was still inaccurate as he believed that the centre of the universe was the sun.

It may be cruel to call this particular theory ridiculous - after all these guys were doing the best they could with what data they had.