| A | B |
| Ancient Egyptians | Earth is Flat |
| Aristole | Everything goes around the earth |
| Ptolemy | Everything around the earth some in bigger circles |
| Nicholaus Copernicus | Earth goes around the sun in a circle |
| Johannes Kepler | Earth goes around the sun in an elliptical orbit |
| Babylonians | Thought earth was a hollow mountain |
| Builders of stone henge | Thought sun was a ball of fire |
| Better observations | Better Model |
| Worse observations | Worse Model |
| Good Model | Good predictions |