Sometimes you can get something totally unique though in Western Literature. Ever read “The Edgeworld Chronicles”? It doesn’t mix and match at all, for the most part. Every detail of the world was based on surrealist paintings - and the outcome, while similar to the typical high fantasy standards of having knights and…

With Copernicus, that wasn’t science not willing to give up the bullshit, that was religion. They couldn’t accept that they weren’t the center of the universe.