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Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

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Ancient Beliefs Before the Scientific Method

Exploring misconceptions and theories from ancient times, such as the belief in a rotating Earth around a central fire and a hypothetical counter-Earth, Antichthon, as discussed by Pythagoreans in the sixth century.

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