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Does anybody still believe that the earth is flat and its the centre of the solar system?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes a lot of young earth creationists believe this to be true. They also believe that the sun live in a tent at night.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 6y agoYes, there are several modern flat earth societies in existence today.
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Why did people believe that the earth was the centre of the solar system?
They thought so because they observed the sun moving across the sky wich was an illousion to fool them.
What did Aristotle believe was in the center of the earth?
I'm not too sure Aristotle even contemplated what was in the centre of the Earth.He may have believed that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe.
Who believed in 340BC that the earth was the centre of your solar system?
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Why did people think that earth was the centre of the solar system?
Because they were barbaric and beleived earth was special :}
What does it means when you say that the solar system is heliocentric?
It means that the sun (helios in greek) is at the centre. This is what we know to be true, but for many years people thought that the earth may be at the centre of the solar system (a geocentric system), with the sun orbiting the earth.
Is an asteroid the earth Pluto or the sun the centre of the solar system?
The Sun.
Who figured out the sun was the centre of the solar system?
I believe the first person to position the sun at the center of our solar system was Copernicus during the Renaissance, Years before this many astronomers believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe.
How did Ptolemy discover the solar system?
circles
Is the Sun a feature of Earth?
No. It is a star we call the sun and is the centre of our solar system.
Did Tycho believe in the Copernican model of heliocentrism?
No, Tycho believed the Earth was at the centre, and he produced an alternative geocentric model that fully explained Venus's phases, which the old Ptolemaic system failed to do.This spoilt Galileo's argument that the Copernican system must be correct and the Sun must be at the centre. However the modern view is that the Sun is at the centre, for reasons that Galileo was not aware of in his lifetime.
What is a description of the solar system in which all planets revolve around Earth?
Geocentric model. This has earth at the centre. We now know this not to be true.
What words definition is this belief that the earth is the center of the solar system?
Such principle of belief that earth is the centre of the solar system is geocentrism. The model is called a Geocentric model.
