Shortly before Copernicus died he figured that the Earth was notthecenter of things, but the Sun was. This theory is still used today.
He worked out this this theory from detailed observations of the orbit of Mars.
Galileo and Copernicus were two of the scientists to disprove Ptolemy's geocentric theory of the universe. The Ptolemaic theory stated that the center was earth.
Shortly before Copernicus died he figured that the Earth was notthecenter of things, but the Sun was. This theory is still used today. He worked out this this theory from detailed observations of the orbit of Mars.
Copernicus proved that earth is the center of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus' theory was that Earth is not the center of the universe and we revolve around the Sun.
Copernicus' theory was that Earth is not the center of the universe and we revolve around the Sun.
Copernicus didn't disprove goecentrism, that was done by Johannes Kepler, who wrote his 3 Laws of Planetary Motion. These were then expanded on by Newton to justify his theory of Gravitation.
Copernicus
1543
The heliocentric theory is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe, not the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus disagreed with his theory, Copernicus belived that Ptolemy's view was to complicated.
Heliocentric theory of universe.