It's overcomplicated because the assumption is are wrong. Lots of smart people stopped being gullible and have figured that the globe and Copernicus are just totally, utterly, obviously wrong
And then, it make much more sense. We see all the stars go around Polaris because they do. They are small, and maybe just thousands of miles away instead of millions. they move, we don't.
Context: https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-worst-theoretical-prediction-in-the-history-of-physics-5be09b309043
It's overcomplicated because the assumption is are wrong. Lots of smart people stopped being gullible and have figured that the globe and Copernicus are just totally, utterly, obviously wrong
And then, it make much more sense. We see all the stars go around Polaris because they do. They are small, and maybe just thousands of miles away instead of millions. they move, we don't.
They are looking at the problem wrong