Heliocentrism

Galileo was an astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who played a big role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. And also created an improved telescope to study the stars. One of his achievements was discovering four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter and the phases of Venus. In 1609 he built his first telescope improving the Dutch telescope, and made other observations about the moon’s surface other stars in the Milky Way. The four new moons were called Callisto, Europa,…

Section One: New Views of the Universe 1. What was the old (incorrect) Ptolemaic view of the universe? Ptolemaic view was that everything revolved around Earth. 2 Summarize Copernicus’ heliocentric system Copernicus’ view was that everything revolved around the sun. 3. What new invention did Galileo perfect and what did he use it to prove? Galileo perfected the telescope. He proved that there was satellites circling Jupiter with the use of the telescope. 4. How did the Catholic Church…

if only the once great empires of the past had understood this iconic proverb. Perhaps then, empires such as Rome would not have fallen. The common misconception is that they fell due to moral decrepitude, but in reality, it came down to their irresponsible use of funds to support the many wars they participated in with the Germanic tribes and others. They taxed the Roman people to the point of poverty in attempts to sustain their power. Their lack of economic knowledge and the eagerness for war…

Introduction The letter to the Grand Duchess Christina is one of the essays that was written by Galileo Galilei in the year 1615. Galileo wrote the letter for the sole purpose of accommodating Copernicanism with the Catholic Church doctrines. In his letter, Galileo tries hard to apply the idea of Church fathers as well as doctors to demonstrate the act of condemning Copernicanism was not in any way appropriate (Cropper, 2001). The time when the letter was written was characterized by a number…

Taking advantage of their faculty of reasoning and objective understanding, radicals have frequently increased and supplemented the public’s knowledge and intelligence in matters related to academia. For example, by developing a deep understanding of the Sun-centered theory of the universe, Galileo radically transformed the way science is done because now, science works primarily by persuasion and not by proof (Pentin 26). Making use of his own understanding, the scientist has developed methods…

Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician, he was the first to come up with a theory of the planets that had the sun at the center. He thought that his heliocentric sun centered conception of the universe offered a more accurate explanation than did the Ptolemaic system. In his system the sun, not earth was at the center of the universe. According to Copernicus, the apparent movement of the sun around earth was caused by the rotation of earth on its axis and its journey around the sun. Isaac…

For centuries, great minds have examined the debate of the Reformation, Scientific Advancement and Explorers between the 16th and 18th centuries. Many events occurred such as, The Heliocentric Theory which was first introduced by Nicholaus Copernicus. He believed that all the planets and stars did not revolve around the earth which is geocentric but instead around the sun. Later, in 1628, William Harvey discovered the function of the heart as a pump and the process in which blood circulates…

Although Copernicus was right about a few things, he was wrong about the idea of the Sun being the center of the universe and being motionless because in fact the Sun did move as well as the stars. Also, Ptolemy and Copernicus both believed the orbits of the planets were circular, but they were actually elliptical. While the Ptolemy’s geocentric model was really good at predicting planetary positioning, it wasn't accurate. Copernicus’s model explained the true motions of planets, using the…

He discovered many breakthroughs of astronomy like finding out the moon was a sphere and supported copernicium's theory against heliocentrism (The earth is in the middle of the universe). In 1612, he published his research in a book called "Discourse on Bodies in Water", again supporting another Copernican's theory contradicting Aristotelian's explanation of why objects float in water…

But why did the Catholic refuse even though there was much more proof supporting heliocentrism? To begin with, the heliocentric theory contradicted most of the Bible. The sun was not perfect for it had sunspots, the earth was not the center (and therefore not the most important body) in the universal system. This was interpreted as an insult…