If we are aiming to reshape the episteme, we should begin by getting the sources of knowledge right and correcting old Eurocentric narratives.

The idea that the whole world believed the Sun circled the Earth until Copernicus is historically incomplete. Long before Copernicus, several civilizations, especially India’s astronomical tradition, had already proposed Earth’s rotation, heliocentric ideas, and highly precise planetary models. Yajnavalkya spoke of the Earth’s revolution around the Sun, Aryabhata explained that Earth rotates on its axis in the 5th century, and Nilakantha Somayaji developed near-heliocentric models in the 15th century.

Correcting these narratives is not about cultural pride. It is about building a global and unbiased foundation of knowledge. If we want to shift the episteme of our era, the first step is recognizing all the intellectual lineages that shaped human understanding. Only then can science become truly universal, rather than filtered through inherited Western lenses.