Surah 21

Surah 21:33

"He (it is) who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in (its own) orbit."
Geocentricism
The Qur'an mentions numerous times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit, but does not mention once that the earth does too. This is consistent with a earth-centered (geocentric) view of the cosmos that places a motionless earth at the center of the universe and all "heavenly bodies" travel around the earth. This was the prevailing understanding of the universe prior to the 1...