Why did Copernicus disagree with the geocentric model?

Answer 1

It doesn't explain the parallax displacement IE if it is true, why don't the stars in the sky move December vs June? The Earth is supposed to be on the other side of the sun and the sky should change BUT at least with the technology of their days it didn't.

If the planet is rotating at 1000 miles an hour, how come there's no wind?

Why does Mars in the sky sometimes move backwards?

Lastly, there was the 30 year war going on in w/c among other things the Protestants and Catholic were fighting. No point in demoralizing/distracting the troops with esoteric gobbledy gook.

Answer 2

Because the Catholic Church couldn't handle the idea that the Earth (God's supposed creation) wasn't the centre of the universe.

Roman Catholic AnswerThey were not:the Catholic Church never condemned the theories of Copernicus. As a matter of fact, the Church supported him and urged him to publish his theories, which he did with a dedication to the current Pope. Sixty-three years after his death, the protestants objected to his theories, and subsequently, when Galileo published similar theories, Copernicus (and Galileo's work was edited to say that it was only a theory, as neither man had actually proved their theories, and there were problems with some influential Churchman at the time who thought that the theories contradicted Sacred Scripture. Please see the link below for a discussion of the matter.

Answer 3

Because it wasn't accurate. His Sun-centered model (it had been proposed by Aristarchus of Samos 1800 years before, but he likely didn't know that) was more accurate and required less mathematical fiddling to predict the locations of the other planets in the sky.

Answer 4

because it fail's to explain the eleptical path of the planats.

Answer 5

It contradicted Ptolemy's ideas that dominated centuries.

Answer 6

because he want he only find the planet