The breakthroughs achieved by Galileo, Kepler, and Newton revolutionized our worlds understanding of the universe. They were willing to accept the consequences of their discoveries, and made surmountable contributions to the furtherment astronomy.
Early astronomy at one time called archaeoastronom, struggled to comprehend how the universe allied with the nature of human kind. Early Greek astronomy searched for understanding outside traditional religious beliefs, and assumed a more philosophical approach of the topic. During the time of the Greek era until Renaissance, it was thought that our universe only consisted of our own solar system. Questions about whether the Earth or the Sun were at the center, became a controversial topic for debate. The early Greeks willingness to search for …show more content…
Subsequently, these teachings formed the believes surrounding Christians calculation of heaven and hell. Nicolaus Copernicus had a profound interest in astronomy. Loyal to the church, he found it difficult to make sense of Aristotle’s Ptolemaic universe. However, questioning this theory may be viewed as rebellion in the eyes of the Church. However,
Copernicus overwhelming interest in the universe, caused him to disclose his theory of a
heliocentric universe. His theory questioned the current believes of Earth as the center and instead, proposed that explanation of daily and annual cycles of the sky, as the Sun, not the
Earth, is at the center of the universe. He distributed this information, mostly anonymously due to recent rebellion of the Church. His controversial Copernican hypothesis opened the path in which others would follow and build their solutions based on his conclusions.
Johannes Kepler, a Lutheran pater, fell into the study of astronomy. A believer of the heliocentric model of Copernicus, discovered the solution was the ellipse. The orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses with the Sun at its focus. He recognized the elliptical shape of the orbits,
Early astronomy at one time called archaeoastronom, struggled to comprehend how the universe allied with the nature of human kind. Early Greek astronomy searched for understanding outside traditional religious beliefs, and assumed a more philosophical approach of the topic. During the time of the Greek era until Renaissance, it was thought that our universe only consisted of our own solar system. Questions about whether the Earth or the Sun were at the center, became a controversial topic for debate. The early Greeks willingness to search for …show more content…
Subsequently, these teachings formed the believes surrounding Christians calculation of heaven and hell. Nicolaus Copernicus had a profound interest in astronomy. Loyal to the church, he found it difficult to make sense of Aristotle’s Ptolemaic universe. However, questioning this theory may be viewed as rebellion in the eyes of the Church. However,
Copernicus overwhelming interest in the universe, caused him to disclose his theory of a
heliocentric universe. His theory questioned the current believes of Earth as the center and instead, proposed that explanation of daily and annual cycles of the sky, as the Sun, not the
Earth, is at the center of the universe. He distributed this information, mostly anonymously due to recent rebellion of the Church. His controversial Copernican hypothesis opened the path in which others would follow and build their solutions based on his conclusions.
Johannes Kepler, a Lutheran pater, fell into the study of astronomy. A believer of the heliocentric model of Copernicus, discovered the solution was the ellipse. The orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses with the Sun at its focus. He recognized the elliptical shape of the orbits,