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No. The geocentric view of the universe, which viewed the Earth as the center of the universe, was challenged by Copernicus in the 1500s. Copernicus realized that the motion of the planets being observed by astronomers could be explained much more simply if the Earth and other planets were all revolving around the sun, rather than the conventional assumption that the planets and the sun were all revolving around the Earth.
Issac Newton was born more than 100 years later, by which time Copernicus' ideas were well accepted. One of Newton's great accomplishments was his theory of gravitation, which, among other things, very precisely predicted the orbits of the planets around the sun through the same mathematical equations that describe how objects fall to the ground on Earth. Newton couldn't have made this groundbreaking discovery if he believed in a geocentric view of the universe.
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BlakeNo, Sir Isaac newton developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation that laid the foundation for the heliocentric view of the universe proposed by Copernicus. Newton's work helped support the idea that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun.
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Which astronomwers contributed to the destruction of the geocentric view of the universe?
Christoph Scheiner, and Johannes Kepler, were the astronomers who contributed to the destruction of the geocentric view of the universe.
Did Copernicus develope the geocentric view of the universe?
No, he developed therious on te heliocentric universe
Who discovered that your universe is heliocentric?
The heliocentric model of the universe, with the Sun at the center and the planets orbiting around it, was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century. Copernicus' work laid the foundation for modern astronomy and challenged the prevailing geocentric view of the universe.
Was Aristotle the person who created the geocentric theory?
Aristotle was the first to develop a geocentric theory. But it is generally accepted that the Greek astronomer Ptolemy provided the most elaborated model of the geocentric view of the universe in which the Earth was the center. This idea lasted for centuries until the time of Copernicus.
What was the old (incorrect) ptolemaic view of the universe?
The geocentric universe, so named because it was believed that everything revolved around the Earth. The view was eventually displaced by the heliocentric solar system, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
