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Many concepts about the Universe with which we are familiar today first arose in ancient Greece between 700 BC and 300 AD. Greek philosophers laid the foundations of modern astronomy.

Eudoxus envisaged the Earth at the centre of a series of crystal spheres upon which were fastened the Sun, Moon, individual planets and stars.