In general terms any unusual natural event was seen as a sign from the Gods, or a portent of something that was to happen.
In Norse Mythology the Sun was chased across the sky every day by the Wolf Skoll. Skoll was intent on devouring the Sun and it was believed that Skoll was taking bites out of the Sun during the Eclipse.
Of course the Sun would magically reappear to light the world but the skalds told that at Ragnarok then Skoll would be sated and darkness and ice would cover Midgard.
Different people, from different time periods thought different things about the solar system. Different people today think different things about the solar system. You'll need to be more specific.
The Eclipse Dragon
An interesting theory from China and India is that they believed that a snake attacked the sun during a solar eclipse. They believed that the only way to frighten away the snake was to bang drums, shoot arrows in to the sky and let off fireworks.
Opinions of the reality of natural phenomena are irrelevant.
Many would think they are a stunning sight, others that they are just a manifestation of celestial mechanics.
The Geocentric model
If you count Pluto, nine planets. Some people think Pluto is too small and too far to be part of the Solar System. Poor Pluto...
They make up the Solar System or the Sun's family.
The Heliocentric picture of the solar system is a model because it was given as a theory by Copernicus to describe the solar system. In prior centuries people believed that the earth was the center of the solar system.
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People thought the earth was in the center of the solar system
Ask not what Ptolemy thinks of his solar system, but what his solar system thinks of Ptolemy.
People in the solar system live on Earth.
Just think this.....is the solar system did NOT exist then we would not exist.
Think about it, the solar system isn't that big. But I think there are microbes and bacteriums on one of the planets.
The Geocentric model
Because they were barbaric and beleived earth was special :}
I don't think our Solar System has such a box.
If you count Pluto, nine planets. Some people think Pluto is too small and too far to be part of the Solar System. Poor Pluto...
Yes, us. There aren't any other people in it, but the people on Earth are all in our solar system.
Yes and no. It depends when you mean. The idea of a round Earth was accepted before the idea of the Sun being in the middle of the solar system. It was only about 400 years ago that people began to believe in the "heliocentric" (Sun centered ) solar system.
Ya think?