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There's an excellent book on this subject, Alan Hirschfeld's "Parallax:The Race to Measure the Cosmos" which discusses this and related issues in detail. It provides a lot of good examples about how the actual history of astronomy was more complicated and messier than a lot of standard narratives.
The actual history of every subject is "more complicated and messier than a lot of standard narratives", but no one has the time and energy to study everything, hence the "standard narratives". If there was one thing I would like to add to everyone's education it would be a caution about the common weaknesses of simplified knowledge.