Douglas_Knight comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong
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Aristarchus made the universe big because he himself thought about parallax. Maybe some critic first made this objection to him, but such details are lost to time, and uninteresting to compared to the question of the response to the complete theory.
As to the rest, I abandon all hope of convincing you.
I ask only that any third parties read the whole exchange and not trust Gwern's account of my claims.