Copernicus created the theory in the 16th century
The Vatican did not believe in heliocentric theory for a long time.
he did his drawings of his heliocentric theory which became art of renaissance during his time period
Galileo did not propose a heliocentric theory, he agreed with Copernicus and his heliocentric theory. The Catholic church, at the time, disagreed and they held a huge amount of power and put him on trial.
He was an Italian scientist of the 17th century. He did not prove the heliocentric theory. But everyone accepts the heliocentric principle now, after it was proved right; but that happened long after Galileo's time, after new scientific discoveries in the latter half of the 1600s.
It's called the heliocentric theory (helios is sun) but it was not a fully fledged theory until well after Galileo's time.
The Vatican did not believe in heliocentric theory for a long time.
he did his drawings of his heliocentric theory which became art of renaissance during his time period
Galileo did not propose a heliocentric theory, he agreed with Copernicus and his heliocentric theory. The Catholic church, at the time, disagreed and they held a huge amount of power and put him on trial.
He was an Italian scientist of the 17th century. He did not prove the heliocentric theory. But everyone accepts the heliocentric principle now, after it was proved right; but that happened long after Galileo's time, after new scientific discoveries in the latter half of the 1600s.
It's called the heliocentric theory (helios is sun) but it was not a fully fledged theory until well after Galileo's time.
The Heliocentric theory was significant because Copernicus had proved something such a long time ago... the fact that it hasn't been proven wrong, or the fact that no-one else believed him because they didnt have the technology to prove it back then.
Galileo
It was the first theory that said that the universe does not revolve around the Earth; instead we revolve around the sun. It discredited many people's theories and modern belief at the time. It is also the proven theory that we believe in today.
They did not oppose the theory, known as the heliocentric theory, but they told him he could not promote it as the absolute truth. As long as he taught it as a theory that would be OK.But he said he was cleverer than all the cardinals and continued to promote the theory as the truth by publishing a book that portrayed the Pope as a simpleton, so he was tried for heresy. By this time he was old and tired and when it was shown in court that the theory had no proof, he recanted and said he had been wrong all along.At least a century later science had advanced to the point where it was realised that the Sun is at the centre, so the heliocentric theory was right all along. But that does not make Galielo right, because scientific knowledge during his lifetime did not support the theory.
the church rejected the theory and tried to punish scientists for promoting it.
Nicolaus died of a stroke. It was lucky he died at that time because if he had lived he would have been accused of heresy for putting the heliocentric theory in place and burned to death as a punishment. he died while holding a book publishing his heliocentric theory. The doctors were very sad because they could not save him and he was born in 1999
Nicolaus Copernicus The above answer is incorrect. Copernicus only proved what Aristarchus already discovered, however at that time people rejected his theory since Aristotle was more popular in terms of science than he was. "He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe...The heliocentric theory was successfully revived nearly 1800 years later by Copernicus" Aristarchus is the correct answer