Solar System. Discovery and exploration Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660) For many thousands of years, humanity, with a few notable exceptions, did not recognize the existence of the Solar System.
People believed Earth to be stationary at the centre of the universe and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects that moved through the sky.
Sun. Planets. Moon. Beans.