Gjm made the point that you are conflating diferent notions of “relative” so I’m not going to address that and will focus on other issues.
Even supposing this is true, why does it matter?
What are the odds they were all wrong?
Until the end of the 19th century, everyone thought that the world had absolute Euclidean space. Up until Cantor, everyone thought that there was only one size of infinity. Up until the 1930s no one thought that atoms could not be split. Up until the early 1600s most people thought that the planets and moons were made of fundamentally different materials than what was on planet Earth.
The fact that something was believed in some form for a long time is not strong evidence. That’s especially the case when the different notions in question are similar but not identical ideas.
In general, for scientific matters, the most recent views are more likely to be correct than earlier views, especially when the early views rely heavily on basic human intuitions.
That’s distinct from the fact that you are combining a wide variety of different ideas as connected when they aren’t.
Gjm made the point that you are conflating diferent notions of “relative” so I’m not going to address that and will focus on other issues.
Until the end of the 19th century, everyone thought that the world had absolute Euclidean space. Up until Cantor, everyone thought that there was only one size of infinity. Up until the 1930s no one thought that atoms could not be split. Up until the early 1600s most people thought that the planets and moons were made of fundamentally different materials than what was on planet Earth.
The fact that something was believed in some form for a long time is not strong evidence. That’s especially the case when the different notions in question are similar but not identical ideas.
In general, for scientific matters, the most recent views are more likely to be correct than earlier views, especially when the early views rely heavily on basic human intuitions.
That’s distinct from the fact that you are combining a wide variety of different ideas as connected when they aren’t.