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I believe it's fairly common knowledge that the Heliocentric and Geocentric views of the solar system co-existed during the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC in Classical Greece. Yet it would be the geocentric view of the universe as expressed by Ptolemy that would gain widespread acceptance and remain dominant until the Copernican Revolution.

But what if...instead of the ideas of Aristotle and Copernicus, the heliocentric ideas of Aristarchus and his contemporaries became dominant?

Assuming a limited butterfly effect (only science for the sake of discussion), how would an earlier adoption of the Heliocentric model affect the development of science?
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