The world during Copernicus
Before Nicolaus Copernicus, humans thought that all celestial objects revolved around the Earth, what is known as geocentrism.
With great opposition from the Catholic church, his theory, called heliocentrism, proposed the opposite, that the Earth and other planets are orbiting around the Sun.
Even though he faced many challenges, his point of view influenced later minds like Galileo and Newton and his theory sits at the base of modern science today.
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The man who started the scientific revolution was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus.
Copernicus developed a heliocentric alternative to Ptolemy's planetary system. His system placed the Sun at the center instead of the Earth. The detailed controversial t...
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