![]() Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), as quoted in All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, “with both eyes open.” ![]() ![]() “Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BCE, who had developed some theories of Heraclides Ponticus (speaking of a revolution by Earth on its axis) to propose what was, so far as is known, the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system. Actually, even the ancient Greek philosophers argued about, as e.g. But, Copernicus was not the first to propose a heliocentric model. Overall, it took about 200 years for a heliocentric model to replace the Ptolemaic model. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), which presented a heliocentric model view of the universe. With the publication of his research he started the so-called Copernican Recolution, which started a paradigm shift away from the former Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which postulated the Earth at the center of the universe, towards the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of our Solar System. On February 19, 1473, Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born, who established the heliocentric model, which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |