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That the earth revolves around the sun, not that the sun revolves around the earth.
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How are ptolemy and copernicus' ideas about the universe different from each other?
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 was Copernicus' idea about the earth and the sun?
That the earth revolves around the sun, not that the sun revolves around the earth.
What is Copernicus Theory?
Copernicus' theory was that Earth is not the center of the universe and we revolve around the Sun.
What was Copernicus theory?
Copernicus' theory was that Earth is not the center of the universe and we revolve around the Sun.
Was Copernicus the first astronmer to suggest heliocentric ideas?
No, far from it. The earliest known astronomer to suggest that the Earth went around the Sun was Aristarchus of Samos, in about 300 BC, 1800 years BEFORE Copernicus.
Who later confirmed Copernicus' ideas about the Earth moving around the sun?
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.Kepler's model is the one we use today, and it has the Sun at the centre, like the Copernican model, but all the other details of Copernicus's theory were rejected in favour of elliptical orbits.
Who stated that the earth moved around the sun?
Copernicus
Who said the sun is the center of the Earth?
Nicholas Copernicus.
What did Copernicus propose?
that the earth traveled around the sun
The great contribution of Nicholas Copernicus was to?
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer. His greatest contribution was to assert that the earth revolves around the sun. At the time that Copernicus lived, the general conception was that the sun revolved around earth.
How did Copernicus and galileo change peoples ideas about the world during the renaissance time?
they both were scientist and both were astronomers and taught that the earth moves around the sun :)
Did Copernicus the first to say the earth circles the sun?
yes.
