But its vague enough to mean a lot of other interpretations too. You can make this shit fit whatever you want it too. If it had turned out that the constalations were fixed to crystal spheres that moved in the sky this description would fit that as well. The fact that the constalations moved was well known at the time as was the movement of the planets.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.