Technology is very different to what was available back during my days. Our knowledge back in the days was very broad and we did not have the technology that we have today.
Many many years after my discoveries Kepler, using the most advanced observatory was able to confirm the heliocentric model and prove that planets orbit around the sun hence proposing the 3 "Laws of Planetary Motion". Years after that, a telescope was invented by Galileo.
In my days, these did not exist. Without these technologies, a large percentage of what is known today could never have been discovered. Our human capabilities are very limited when it comes to astronomy and cosmology and we can only prove what we can see with our bare eyes and comprehend with our mind.
All of the theories until the time of Galileo, were limited by the lack of the telescope. Without telescopes, all measurements, observations were made by naked-eye, and were limited of accuracy.
If telescopes had been available earlier, then Parallax might have been observed in nearby stars, and greater accuracy would have been possible in measuring planetary positions and movements.
This would have led to the rejection of the "epicycles" and perhaps the correct heliocentric model would have been accepted earlier.
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