When did the majority of people start to believe in a heliocentric galexy?

Answer 1

This explains the input of several astronomers into this theory. Copernicus: In 1418-30, he did his work on 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres' In this book, he suggested that Earth rotated daily on its axis and that it orbits the Sun every year. He also said that other planets also rotated around the Sun, and that the Earth wobbled slightly as it span on its orbit. His theory, did not disagree completely with the older ideas; he still said that there were solid planet bearing spheres and that the outermost sphere contained the stars. He also explained that the Earth was not at the centre of the Universe. This caused uproar in the Catholic Church, because it disagreed with the God's Perfect Creation theory. Galileo: Galileo first studied the moon. He discovered that the moon was not smooth, but heavily cratered. He went on to discover, four satellites (moons) orbiting Jupiter. After this, he then discovered Saturn's rings, but he did not know what they were. These discoveries, made it very difficult to defend the perfect universe theory, with perfect smooth bodies of all the objects. He then noticed that Venus went through phases like the moon (ie: full, half, new etc.). This proved that Venus could not be orbiting the Earth, but had to be orbiting the Sun. After Copernicus' and Galileo's theories, the Inquisition of Rome was formed saying that after looking into the theories, they were absurd. They said that they were heretical. Eventually, Galileo was charged by the Inquisition, and was put under house arrest. Kepler: In 1592, Kepler became an apprentice to Brahe, a man who owned the largest collection of astronomical instruments in the world. When Brahe died, Kepler inherited them all. He immediately sent Galileo a message of encouragement, and then looked at a calculation that Galileo had sent him. Using Brahe's charts, Kepler was able to show that planets had elliptical orbits, and that this usually was the case. However, he soon died in poverty, as Protestant beliefs disagreed with his findings.

Answer 2

The heliocentric model of the galaxy, where the Sun is at the center, gained widespread acceptance in the 16th century after Copernicus proposed it in his book "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" in 1543. However, it took some time for this idea to be fully embraced by society and the scientific community.

Answer 3

Galileo. He used mathematical calculations and was arrested by the Catholic Church because of it. The church believed that all the planets (wanderers) circled around the Earth. Galileo thought differently and that's why he was arrested, but in court he had to admit there was no proof.

Galileo postulated the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system, as Copernicus had done, and the Catholic Church supported the idea as a useful model for calculation. Galileo had no way of knowing the Sun is actually at the centre, that was not known until later dynamic theories showed that having the Sun at the centre is most likely because it contains the minimum energy of all possible models. Now that is accepted by everyone including the Catholics.

The heliocentric theory we use now is not the Copernican theory put forward by Galileo. All Copernicus's circles and epicycles were replaced by elliptical orbits after the time of Kepler and Newton. So Galileo's idea of having the Sun at the centre is the only thing that has survived.

Answer 4

Hasn't happened yet.

Certainly other levels of understanding augment the heliocentric construct but at it's core the Human Race is most decidedly Heliocentric and it seems to be getting worse all the time. Row of panels receive the blessings of our center piece to power our world. Rows of plants receive the blessings of our center piece to feed us, fuel us, shade us. (Sometimes too much of a good thing..................) Wind driven generators spin because of the centerpiece's influence in our atmosphere. Light from the centerpiece bathes us in all frequencies permitting vision, industry, and subtle interactions with all life forms. (Vitamin D for us humans, Krill for the whales and others. etc etc etc)

Bigger stuff is going on - but there is and was nothing wrong with the Heliocentric Theory.

Answer 5

Copernicus and Galileo
Johannes Kepler believed that the Heliocentric theory was correct.

Heliocentric means sun-centered - ancients believed the earth stood still and the sun moved around earth , so it was radical to suggest the the earth moved and the sun stood relatively still.

Answer 6

The heliocentric theory was first proposed by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos, in the 3rd century, BCE.

The first predictive heliocentric mathematical model of the motion of the planets was developed by Nicholas Copernicus.

Answer 7

"Most" people have never given it a moment's thought, and to this day, the majority of people don't know anything at all about celestial dynamics, or where the Sun and Moon and Earth are.

Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek astronomer of about 300 BCE, is the first person known to have written that the Sun - or as he put it, the "central fire" - was at the center of the solar system and that the Earth went around the Sun. Aristotle believed that the Earth was in the center, but Aristotle may have been the wrong-est person in history.

Nicolae Copernicus was the person who demonstrated, mathematically, that the Earth must orbit the Sun, and most astronomers since then have accepted this.

Answer 8

The heliocentric theory was first presented by Aristarchus of Samos. In the 16th century, mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, presented a detailed observation. In the following century, supporting observations made using a telescope were presented by Galileo Galilei.

Answer 9

Keplar using Tycho Brahe's data.

Answer 10

Johannes Kepler