That may be the best we can do, but it would have required sub-arc-second accuracy to measure the parallax to the nearest stars, and the science of astronomy was nowhere near that capability in Galileo's day. Thus, the superiority of the heliocentric view was unprovable, since it was indistinguishable from the geocentric view.
That may be the best we can do, but it would have required sub-arc-second accuracy to measure the parallax to the nearest stars, and the science of astronomy was nowhere near that capability in Galileo's day. Thus, the superiority of the heliocentric view was unprovable, since it was indistinguishable from the geocentric view.