Heliocentrism and Capitalism

That the Earth orbits around the Sun does not entail that it spins on an axis that is not perpendicular to its orbit.  In other words, two of the significant implications of Heliocentrism--terrestrial diurnality and seasonality--are contingent features of it that override some corresponding features of Geocentrism, e. g. that the Sun daily transits across the sky.  Thus entailed in those features is a challenge to foundational Empiricism, i. e. a demonstration that an apparently absolute perception is relativistic.  Now, Physicists have better appreciated this demonstration than have some Epistemologists.  For example, by reducing Primary Qualities to Secondary Qualities, Berkeley conflates Privatism, e. g. the thesis that colors are the product of an internal modification, with Relativism, e. g. that a Circle is perceived as an Ellipse because of the angle between perceiver and object.  Likewise, in his application of Berkeleyan Epistemology to Economics, Smith reduces an objective concatenation of gain and loss to a moment of private enjoyment, thereby suppressing its social co-implication. So, the sometimes radical Individualism that has developed from Smith's doctrine has its roots in a failure to appreciate one of the fundamental Epistemological lessons of the past several centuries.