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This is pretty much true; geocentrism is one of the old tropes whereby contemporaries unjustly devalue the thought of the past in an attempt at Whig history. The Greek rejection of heliocentrism was not completely wrong, any more than Columbus's contemporaries were universally flat-earthers.
(I've pointed out in the past something similar about Greek atomism.)
(More on atomism.)