Rejected by his contemporaries and ignored for 18 centuries, Aristarchus of Samos proposed the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system. You may read about it in Archimedes' book, "The Sand Reckoner".
heliocentric system
heliocentric system
Nicolaus Copernicus
Rejected by his contemporaries and ignored for 18 centuries, Aristarchus of Samos proposed the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system. You may read about it in Archimedes' book, "The Sand Reckoner".
Nicoli Copernicus.
Nicholas Copernicus
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.
The first person to theorize a heliocentric solar system was Aristarchus, a greek philosopher. However, he was ridiculed, and the first person to have the idea accepted was Copernicus.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus was the first to propose the Heliocentric theory, the correct theory that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
Ptolemy proposed a geocentric model, with Earth at the center and planets orbiting it. Copernicus suggested a heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the solar system. Galileo's telescopic observations supported the heliocentric model and provided evidence for Copernicus' theory.
The current model of the solar system was first conceived by Nicolaus Copernicus, but the idea of a heliocentric solar system was known to the Greeks of antiquity.