Both of these men believed that their theories about the planets were accurate. You had Copernicus who believed that all planets orbited the sun while the moon orbited the earth. He was also convinced that the sun was in the center and did not move, and neither did the stars. As for Ptolemy, he believed that all objects orbited the sun. His theory was that the Earth was the center of the universe but stayed still.…
However, when he did, he had received a lot of backlash. This was because there wasn’t a lot of evidence around to change the minds of the world. However it was enough to change the minds of major scientists like Fontenelle and Newton, who set out and wrote their own books (Text 8). With major scientists around presenting a lot of exclusive data, the Church started to have an open mind about heliocentrism and in 1758 lifted the heliocentric ban. (Text 8).…
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, scientists work became widely known, and controversial to the Catholic Church’s beliefs. The scientific revolution occurred during the seventeenth century, which was a revolution in ways of thinking. Technological innovations during this period changed the way people lived in the future. Scientific experimentation led to discoveries that went against the Catholic Church’s beliefs. Scientists during these times had to try to align their works with the Church’s teachings, otherwise they were punished based on what their experiments resulted.…
Why would the major theory maintained by the Aristotle anticipate the view of Copernicus? At the time, the theory was controlled by science and religion. This is the hazard of disagreeing with a method, which logically criticizes the kind of creative inventiveness and freethinking of the extensive list of Copernicus and Galileo. Maybe it is time to scrap such disagreements for normal science and theories. Maybe it is time for experts to guide by recognizable proofs and open thinking (Bronowsk, J.,…
Scientists of the time started looking back at the commonly believed theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy and started to question the accuracy. One of these scientists was Copernicus who believed in heliocentrism, the theory that all the planets in the universe revolve around…
He was living like an outcast just scraping by. He was inspired by Copernicus ideas with astronomy so he met up with Tycho Brahe, who helped along with his work. From there on he started his research on astronomy. His late life he…
The growth of astrological knowledge transformed gradually from Ptolemy to Galileo. It was during the 1600s that the concept of heliocentric erupted, which is the idea that the sun is the center of the celestial body. The introduction of an improved telescope by Galileo himself paved the way to the doubts of the geocentric concept. The concept was one that was widely accepted and supported by the people and Catholic Church. However, the notion that the earth was not the center of the celestial body had the church concerned.…
Galileo Galilei was known for proving the planets orbited around the sun and did not orbit around the Earth. One of the revolutions in the scientific revolution. This created controversy with the Church because Galileo was proving the Church that it was wrong about something. To prove the Church wrong is similar to proving God wrong since the Church lives by the Word of God. Galileo went on to write a letter to the Grand Duchess Cristina of Tuscany, which he challenged the Church in.…
During the Enlightenment, scientists began challenging the current beliefs and theories. One of the most influential scientists was Nicolaus Copernicus. He developed the heliocentric theory, which said the sun was the center of the solar system. It was the first major challenge to accepted scientific thinking. Also, Galileo Galileio discovered the law of the pendulum and built his own telescope, making new discoveries about astronomy that supported Copernicus's theory.…
Scientists began to observe a variety of natural phenomenon and question previous beliefs. Galileo and Copernicus were important astronomers during The Scientific Revolution. Copernicus denied the geocentric theory and advanced a new theory of a heliocentric theory, which was later proved accurate. Galileo supported Copernicus’s theory but it angered the church because it believed the solar system was geocentric. The Pope had Galileo tried.…
He was able to realize that there were rings around Saturn. He also discovered sunspots and the different phases of Venus. Overall, he was able to confirm the information of heliocentrism, which is the fact that the sun is the center of the universe. His discoveries at first made him famous. During the time of medieval Europe and the Renaissance, religion was centered as a main lifestyle of about each country, especially the Italians.…
Each great scientist that we learned about had a different experience while presenting their theories and discoveries to the public, depending on factors like where they came from and what year it was. Two scientists, Galileo Galilei and Claudius Ptolemy, had differences in their theories and the ways that they came to be accepted. I believe that when it comes down to how the public received their ideas, Galileo struggled more than Ptolemy. Based on the observations he could make using the naked eye, Ptolemy believed in a geocentric universe, a universe where the earth is in the center. Galileo believed in a heliocentric universe, a universe where the sun is the center, and was the first to provide significant proof to support his theory.…
Astronomy is the oldest science the Greeks name star’s from different god they thought star’s control nature the first astronomy were Greek priests. The Greek developed astronomy. Which they treated as a type of mathemic instead of religion. Aristarchus of samos is the first to suggest a heliocentric system , which mean Sun-in-center of the solar system , before Astronomy everybody thought the earth was in the center of the solar system.…
Aristarchus of Samos was not only an astronomer but also a mathematician. He lived between 310–230 B.C. and belonged to the Pythagorean School of Thought (Heath). His mathematical knowledge helped him to discover great advances in the world of astronomy. His writing The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is his only surviving text (Aristarchus ‘16). Aristarchus’ description of the solar system was similar to our modern one and this was about 1500 years before Copernicus made his geocentric model (Hawley & Holcomb p.34).…
He developed a new theory in astronomy based on ratios. He thought the universe was a sphere and the stars were on the outer shell. The sun, moon and the other planets revolved around the Earth because it was in the center. He came up with the idea of “Harmony of the Spheres” because the distance between Earth and each of the seven planets had the same ratios as the seven musical notes A through G. The idea was popular among Greeks but scientist later disproved it. When observing a lunar eclipse he saw the curved shadow the Earth gave and discovered that Earth was a sphere.…