Who developed the heliocentric theory in ancient times?

Answer 1

No, the idea goes back to the ancient Greeks; Aristarchus of Samos, a mathematician and astronomer, is the first person (that we know of!) to have suggested the idea that the Sun was at the center of the solar system. But Aristotle insisted that the Earth was the center of all things, and his ideas were accepted.

Copernicus was the first person to demonstrate mathematically how it would work, and his concepts have been generally proven to be correct. So he generally gets the credit.

Answer 2

The Heliocentric Theory was invented to provide a simpler, more comprehensive and more accurate "explanation" of the motion of the heavenly bodies. The Theory is an invention and a an "explanation". The heavenly bodies know nothing of the Heliocentric theory, they moved, the same as they did before the new theory. A better theory is a better if its explanation is simpler, covers more the more situations, and is more accurate. Newton's Theory of Gravity is a better theory than the Heliocentric Theory.

Answer 3

It first happened as a stab in the dark by Nicholas Copernicus and was later publicised as the absolute truth by Galileo, which got him into trouble with the religious authorities.

Copernicus promoted the heliocentric theory by saying it was simpler than the earlier Ptolemaic one, but later examination of his writings by Arthur Koestler showed that it was in fact more complicated

However, later scientific discoveries in the 17th-19th centuries demonstrated that the heliocentric theory with elliptical orbits for the planets is a far superior theory for describing the behaviour of the solar system.

Answer 4

The earliest known written reference to the Earth as circling the Sun is in the writings of Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek astronomer and mathematician, around the year 300 BCE. It's possible that he drew on the earlier writings of Egyptian or Babylonian astronomers, but very little of their writings have survived.

The simpleton Greek philosopher Aristotle (who may have been the wrong-est person ever to live) argued that it was OBVIOUS that the Sun and everything else circled the Earth. (His medical writing was similarly idiotic.) Aristotle's views became the more widely accepted ones, and it took Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish monk, to re-discover the truth of the matter in the mid-1500s.

Answer 5

Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek astronomer and mathematician, is the first person known to suggest that the Earth goes around the Sun - when, as any ignorant peasant can PLAINLY see, the Sun goes around the Earth.

There was no "geocentric theory"; any fool could open his eyes and SEE how things were. Except, in this case as in so many others, what's obvious isn't always what's true.

Answer 6

No. The Greek mathematician Aristarchus of Samos was the first person known, about 300BCE, to have proposed that the Earth circles the Sun rather than the other way around. His ideas were not widely accepted, and the hideously wrong Aristotle's concept of the Earth at the center held sway until Copernicus revived the ancient Greek idea.

Answer 7

It is commonly believed that Nicolaus Copernicus is the creator of the heliocentric model, but the heliocentric model actually existed before Copernicus. It is believed that the heliocentric model existed as early as 200 B.C. created by a person named Aristarchus of Samos.

Answer 8

All I could find was ;

Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe. The word comes from the Greek (ἥλιος helios "sun" and κέντρον kentron"center"). Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos,[2] but had received no support from most other ancient astronomers.

It was not until the 16th century that a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system was presented, by the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In the following century, this model was elaborated and expanded by Johannes Kepler and supporting observations made using a telescope were presented by Galileo Galilei.

With the observations of William Herschel, Bessel and others, astronomers realized that the sun was not the center of the universe and by the 1920s Edwin Hubble had shown that it was part of a galaxy that was only one of many billions.

Answer 9

The Geocentric Theory states that the Earth is the center of the universe, and that all other objects orbit around it.

Answer 10

Nicholas Copernicus