Copernican heliocentrism

Ever wonder who discovered that the Sun is in the middle of the solar System? Nicholas Copernicus was a Renaissance scientist. He discovered that the Earth was NOT in the center of the universe, but rather the sun in the middle of the solar system. During Copernicus’s life events; his important influences, discoveries, and the way we use his discoveries are extremely important to us today. Copernicus had important life events that not only changed his life, but changed the world’s future.…

In Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina, he argues for the support and research of Heliocentrism. Galileo states, “I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age” (Spielvogel 481). Galileo’s heliocentric discovery was that the Sun is at the center of the known Universe and the earth revolves around the sun. This discovery; however, threatened the church and its bible. Galileo writes, “The holy bible can never speak untruth-whenever its true meaning is…

It was a warm June day in Rome. Francesco Niccolini, a Tuscan ambassador, and Galileo Galilei, an aging mathematician, sat in the Villa Medici awaiting their call to the Holy Office. It had been months since the beginning of his trial with the Roman Inquisition and Galileo was ready to be finished with the ordeal. He had been ill since the first session of his interrogation back in April and his condition had continued to worsen. Niccolini had already been informed of the old man’s sentence,…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

The common misconception that science and faith are in constant conflict, each hoping to disprove the other, is prevalent in the minds of so many people today that it has led to the belief that one must be wrong and the other right. Most people would be quick to side with science since they can see the visible signs that science bases its conclusions off of. However, science and faith are not in conflict and neither hopes to disprove the other. Rather science and Christian faith work together in…

From his work in various fields such as astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, Galileo Galilei is widely known as one of the key individuals of the Renaissance era’s Scientific Revolution, What many people do not know, however, is that Galileo was a victim of the Roman Inquisition. The documents of this trial, named “From the Later-Trial Documents (1632-33)”, were requested to be recorded by His Holiness Pope Urban VIII, and written mostly by the Holy Order. Galileo may have also written, or at…

Carlie Zeisler Mrs. Stetson Scientific Revolution Paper Johannes Kepler “The path of a planet around the sun is an ellipse, with the Sun as the focal point,” -Kepler's first law of planetary motion. The Scientific Revolution was the beginning of the scientific discoveries that have formed modern science. This period started during the end of the Renaissance and continued throughout the 18 century. Johannes Kepler was a major figure in this period, including the observations mentioned in his…

discovery created and spread a huge fuss between the people who followed the ancient belief of Greek and Egyptian proto-scientists that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the planets revolved around it, and those who followed the Copernican theory that in fact our Earth is just one of a number of planets revolving around the sun not the way around. [3] This is the major change the telescope made in history. Another great significance was denying the Aristotelian principles, which…

At the same time of the Renaissance challenging tradition ways of thought, the Reformation was also taking place. This movement, a religious statement against the Catholic Church that challenged its corruption, was bringing in followers and making them question the church’s ideas of God and Salvation. It reached a large scale, adding political pressure from countries like Germany who pushed against the Church from different sides. (6) These combined with the curiosity of the Renaissance and new…

Geocentric Model The geocentric model is a theory developed by philosophers in Ancient Greece which explained the universe structure where Earth is at the orbital centre of all celestial bodies. In the 4th century BC, Plato and Aristotle published studies based on geocentrism and believed that Earth was stationary at the centre of the solar system, and stars and planets rotated around the Earth on concentric spheres arranged in the order: Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the…