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Claudius Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus was the astronomer to challenge the geocentric model of the solar system.
In a geocentric solar system model, earth is in the center, and all of the planets and then sun orbit around it. Geo= Earth Centric= Center
This would be known as a geocentric model, and it is pretty easy to show why such a model is unlikely.
A geocentric model of the solar system. Which is incorrect.
Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus was the astronomer to challenge the geocentric model of the solar system.
The heliocentric model is the one that replaces the geocentric model because the heliocentric model better described the solar system.
Geocentric model. This has earth at the centre. We now know this not to be true.
In a geocentric solar system model, earth is in the center, and all of the planets and then sun orbit around it. Geo= Earth Centric= Center
This would be known as a geocentric model, and it is pretty easy to show why such a model is unlikely.
It is the geocentric model.
From what little I understand of your question I am guessing that the theory that is no longer accepted could be the Geocentric Model of the Universe. That is the theory that everything revovles aroung the Earth while the Earth is stationary.
There is no geocentric model of the earth!
One of them was Claudius Ptolemy. He made a geocentric model and called it Plotemy's system, it lasted 13 centuries.
The Geocentric model