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Why was Aristarchus’s model not accepted

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Aristarchus’s model wasn’t accepted because at the time, it was believed that the earth was as the center of the universe.

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Aristarchus was not as famous as Aristotle.

Aristarchus could not answer some important questions about the model.

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