he thought the sun was in the center of the solar system, and that all the other planets and Earth orbited around it
The Copernicus view says that all the celstrial bodies and the asteroids orbit the sun.
He followed Copernicus's model of the solar system which places the Sun at the center of the solar system instead of the Earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the solar system and that the planets, including Earth, revolved around the Sun in circular orbits. This heliocentric model challenged the prevailing geocentric view of the time.
When did Copernicus write his book on the solar system?
heliocentric system
Copernicus' view was that the sun was the centre of the solar system. He believed everything revolved around the sun in circular orbits. Ptolmey on the other hand placed a static Earth at the centre with the planets and the sun orbiting the earth.Copernicus thought that the solar system revolved around the sun and not the Earth.
heliocentric system
Nicolaus Copernicus.
Copernicus
the sun is the center of the solar system.
he founded the solar system
copernicus