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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.
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.
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.
Is an asteroid the earth Pluto or the sun the centre of the solar system?
The Sun.
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.
Is the Sun a feature of Earth?
No. It is a star we call the sun and is the centre of our solar system.
How did Ptolemy discover the solar system?
circles
What did man believe before Galileo's contributions?
They believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe even after Galileo presented his idea. It was later proven that the sun was the centre of the universe.
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 is the difference between a geocentric snd heliocentric model of the solar system?
Heliocentric was thought to believe that the sun was at the center of the solar system and that the planets revolved around the Sun. Geocentric was thought to believe that the earth was the center of the solar system and that the planets revolved around the earth. We now know that our solar system is centered around the sun and is heliocentric.
