[Ibrahim]

Ok. To try again:
Despite the irrefutable fact that 'it only takes rudimentary geometry and astronomy to understand that only a spherical earth accounts for the change in visible constellations,' there was perhaps an understanding that our model of the earth & cosmos would frame our placement of ourselves in it? A conscious choice for a model of the cosmos that ignores the material facts, the way the ancient Egyptians knew perspective, but simply did not use it?

Another illustration would be the case of modern astrology which, by linking itself to the empirical findings of astrological science, has ended up unnecessarily muddying its own perfectly consisent symbolical system.