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Nicolaus Copernicus was a famous Polish astronomer and mathematician. He was best known for his work “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” which states that the Sun is the center of the solar system.

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How did Copernicus change peoples' view of the solar system?

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Copernicus published a new theory of the planets in 1543 which had the Sun at the centre. Other than that the theory was similar to the old Ptolemaic theory in that it used circles and epicycles to model the paths taken by the planets.


66 years later, Kepler's theory was published. It had the Sun at the center, like the Copernican theory, but in all other respects it was novel because it used the new idea of elliptical orbits for the planets. Eventually Kepler's model became generally accepted and the older models were discarded.

But Copernicus was the first to publish a serious alternative theory to the one by Ptolemy from 1400 years earlier. In that sense he initiated the Renaissance as far as the study of Astronomy was concerned.

Copernicus was the first astronomer to reconsider the theory that explains how the planets move among the fixed stars. The Ptolemaic theory with the Earth at the centre had been around long enough (1400 years) for it to be incorporated in the scriptures and therefore difficult to change.

Copernicus's alternative model published in 1543 had the Sun at the centre and all the planets including the Earth travelling round in orbits that were made up from circles.

Copernicus's model has the planets, particularly Venus and Mars, moving in paths that are geometrically simpler. Other than that, there was no way of knowing which model was a better representation of reality.

Galielo took up Copernicus's model and promoted it aggressively to the extent of starting a major dispute with the Catholic authorities.

However both theories were eventually discarded in favour of Johannes Kepler's theory of 1609 when later discoveries in gravity and dynamics showed that the planets follow Kepler's three laws of planetary motion under the force of the Sun's gravity.

The idea of having the Sun in the center is now generally accepted as right, and Copernicus gets the credit for starting the train of thought that arrived at the correct solution even though the details of his theory were not accepted.

Who was responsible for supporting Copernicus theories about the rotations of the earth during the scientific revolution?

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Galileo Gallilei (dont know how to spell his name) ,Johanes Kepler, and Newton

Galileo saw the solar flares cycles, Keples created Kepler's three laws of planetary motion which proved Tycho Brahe wrong. Kepler showed that each planet rotates around the sun in an elliptical shape (which have two vertices, one being the center of mass between the two objects and the second being the center of gravity)

Kepler was proved wrong because he did not have the theory of Universal gravity created by Newton 100 years later

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How did Copernicus work challenge the accepted view of the universe?

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Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer who lived 1473-1543 developed the heliocentric model. Meaning he believed the earth revolved around the sun this contradicted popular belief at the time.

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What was the copernican?

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The Copernican Hypothesis is the hypothesis that the sun, rather than the earth, was at the centre of the universe. Copernicus theorised that the stars and planets, including the earth, revolved around a fixed sun. He worked on it from 1506-1530, but it wasn't published until the year of his death in 1543.

What important event happened in William Shakespeare's life?

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  • April, 1564: Shakespeare is born
  • November, 1582: Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
  • May, 1583: Shakespeare's daughter Susanna is born
  • 1585: Shakespeare's twins Judith and Hamnet are born.
  • 1588: The Spanish Armada attacks England
  • 1585-1590: Shakespeare drops out of circulation, and reappears as an actor.
  • 1592: Shakespeare referred to as a playwright for the first time in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
  • 1593: Shakespeare publishes the successful soft-porn poem Venus and Adonis
  • 1594: Shakespeare is made a partner in a new Acting Company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men
  • 1594: Titus Andronicus is the first Shakespearean play to be printed
  • 1596: Hamnet Shakespeare dies.
  • 1596-1600: Shakespeare writes his happiest and funniest plays
  • 1599: Shakespeare helps fund the construction of the Globe Theatre
  • 1600: Shakespeare's father John dies. Shakespeare starts writing the great tragedies and dark comedies
  • 1601: The Earl of Essex stages an unsuccessful rebellion against Elizabeth I. The Chamberlain's Men are involved but are not punished.
  • 1603: Queen Elizabeth I dies; James I succeeds. The Lord Chamberlain's Men become the King's Men.
  • November 5, 1605: The Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes arrested.
  • 1608: Shakespeare helps fund the purchase of the Blackfriars Theatre.
  • 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets are published
  • 1611: Shakespeare starts a writing partnership with John Fletcher.
  • June 29, 1613: The First Globe Theatre is burned to the ground
  • 1613: Shakespeare retires to Stratford
  • April 23, 1616: Shakespeare dies.

What is the main difference between the geocentric and heliocentric molds of planetary motion?

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The geocentric model shows earth as the center of the universe. That means everything even the sun revolves around it. That was the theory used in early Greek astronomy. Heliocentric literally means, "sun in the center." That is the way our solar system really is, with everything revolving around the sun. It has been proven by space probes and missions

What describes the work of Nicolaus Copernicus?

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He was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

Where was Copernicus from?

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the Kingdom of Poland on February 19, 1473. He was the first to formulate a comprehensive Heliocentric Cosmology , which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. He died on May 24, 1543 in the Kingdom of Poland.

What is it called when the earth is in the center of the solar system?

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The name of our planet is the Earth. The name of our moon is the Moon. The name of our solar system is the Solar System.

I capitalize them, because when used as names, they are proper nouns. This also helps us distinguish between the planet Earth and earth (meaning soil), between the Earth's Moon and moon (meaning the natural satellite of a planet), and between our Solar System and any other solar systems (since any system containing a star and a planet or a planet-forming disk can be called a solar system.)

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

Is Copernicus is a priest?

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The best information I have found is that Copernicus was a canon but never became a priest. See http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Copernicus.html

What astronamer was imprisoned for agreeing with the heliocentric theory?

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There were several. The ones that come to mind are Copernicus and Bruno (who was actually burnt at the stake).

Which astronomer discovered the orbit of planets?

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Newton

Copernicus is credited for hypothesizing the heliocentric solar system. Kepler had the equations to determine the orbits, but didn't know "why" these figures worked. Galileo's observations confirmed these things, but it was Newton's laws of motion that explained the "why."

What evidence did Galileo provide for the support of a Heliocentric solar system?

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Galileo did not directly provide evidence for the heliocentric principle but he did discover important evidence that raised doubts about the Ptolemaic system with the Earth at the centre.

First, he discovered the moons of Jupiter, and these were the first objects discovered that definitely orbited round something that was not the Earth. That was one thing.

Secondly, he discovered that Venus has a gibbous phase when seen from Earth in certain positions in its orbit. This is not explained by the Ptolemaic system because Venus cannot go round behind the Sun in the Ptolemaic system.

Again this did not prove the heliocentric principle because Tycho Brahe came up with an intermediate system that had Mercury and Venus orbiting round the Sun, and then the Sun and the other planets orbit round the Earth. So this was still a geocentric system that explained all Venus's phases.

Therefore Galileo did not have enough evidence to prove the heliocentric principle, and after his trial he recanted.

But 60-70 years later enough new evidence had been gathered to convince most people that the Sun is at the centre, as we believe now.

What number is earth from the sun?

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Using an average distance of 93,000,000 miles between the Earth and the Sun, and a diameter of 8,000 miles for the Earth, this would mean the Sun is 11,625 Earth-Diameters away! To put it another way: If the Sun were the size of a regulation 9-inch basketball, then the Earth would be just a bit bigger than the head of a pin, and located 77 feet away! (The nearest Star/basketball would be about 4,000 miles away!)

Which of these did Copernicus believe was at the center of the universe?

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No, that was what the scriptures said, but Copernicus's model, also promoted by Galileo, had the Sun at the centre instead.

What other jobs did Nicolaus Copernicus do?

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Nicolaus worked for his uncle as a physicain and security.

How are ptolemy and copernicus' ideas about the universe different from each other?

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Ptolemy and Copernicus' ideas about the universe are different from each other in the sense that Ptolemy thought that every celestial object as well as the sun and the moon orbited the Earth whereas Copernicus had the thought that all planets orbited the Sun, while the Moon orbited the Earth.

What did Copernicus believe about the heliocentric model?

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Copernicus looked at the planet's movements among the fixed stars, and the Ptolemaic model from ancient times, and considered that it would be simpler to put the Sun at the centre because the paths of the inner planets could be described more simply.

Copernicus model of 1543 used a system of circles and epicycles, as the ancient model had. For the inner planets Copernicus's model used considerably smaller epicycles, so that Mercury, Venus and Mars followed paths that were less convoluted.

Both models described the planets' movements reasonably accurately and there was no way of deciding which was right. But Copernicus's idea of placing the Sun at the centre led Kepler to his model of 1609 which used the new idea of elliptical orbits, which is the model used today.

What did Copernicus do to find out his discovery?

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Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543 was a Polish priest and astronomer who created an alternative model of the planets which put the Sun at the centre, instead of the Earth as generally accepted at that time.
He knew it would get him into trouble with the church, and his book 'De Revolutionibus' was not published until the year he died. The theory with the Sun at the centre was similar to the old Ptolemaic system with its collection of circles and epicycles allowing for the changes in distance and the changes in planets' speeds, and their departure from the ecliptic.

Who proved Copernicus' heliocentric theory?

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Galileo Galilei noted that; if our Earth and other planets went around our Sun, Venus would exhibit phases like our Moon; but if our Sun and other planets went around our Sun, it wouldn't. GG looked at Venus over the course of several weeks and noted unmistakeable phases. He thus concluded that the Copernican model was not just a useful model for calculation, but supported by observation.