Rob, you're being silly and your
chronology is off by about 1400 years yo. Ptolemy was NOT a priest or a sage, HE WAS A FUCKING 2ND CENTURY AD SCIENTIST, and yes, he wholeheartedly believed in the geocentric model (as did thousands of years of astronomers not to be confused with astrologers) and constructed awkward math to try and support the premise. Really, to the ancient mind the idea that the Earth is moving was simply unimaginable. Then again, it should have been intuitive, all you have to do is drink a few too many beers and suddenly the diurnal motion becomes obvious enough so as to become disorienting
