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Cosmology was certainly geocentric before Copernicus (1473-1543), but geocentricity and sphericity are two entirely different issues, both scientifically and historically. Educated medieval people assumed that Earth was the shape of a globe, just as they assumed that Earth did not rotate and was the center of what wee now call the solar system .[1]