nicolaus copernicus put the sun in the center of the universe.
nicolaus copernicus put the sun in the center of the universe.
who put the sun in the center of the universe?
nicolaus copernicus
historically, different people have suggested various locations as the center of the universe. many mythological cosmologies included an "axis mundi", the central axis of a flat earth that connects the earth, heavens, and other realms together. in the 4th century bce greece, philosophers developed the geocentric model, based on astronomical observation; this model proposed that the center of the universe lies at the center of a spherical, stationary earth, around which the sun, moon, planets, and stars rotate. with the development of the heliocentric model by nicolaus copernicus in the 16th century, the sun was believed to be the center of the universe, with the planets (including earth) and stars orbiting it.
history of the center of the universe
you, king gelon, are aware the universe is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere the center of which is the center of the earth, while its radius is equal to the straight line between the center of the sun and the center of the earth. this is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. but aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the universe just mentioned. his hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun on the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of fixed stars, situated about the same center as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface
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