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How did Copernicus' heliocentric theory contradict most scholors and clergy of his time?
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∙ 10y ago
His theory was that the earth revolves around the sun, as opposed to the popular belief at the time that the sun revolves around the earth. He was right.
Yes, Copernicus was eventually proven to be correct. But at the time he said he could not prove his hypothesis and taught it as just that - an hypothesis. He never got himself in trouble with the Catholic Church. Galileo, on the other hand, picked up the theory of Copernicus and taught it as proven fact, which it wasn't. THAT is what got Galileo into trouble. He actually had many supporters in the Church, including the pope.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 10y agoPretty much all educated people at the time of Copernicus concluded that our Earth was the center of our solar system, and our Sun went around our Earth. Copernicus thought a better explanation for what we observed about planetary motion was that our Earth went around our Sun.
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∙ 8y agoThey were not rejected, they are still a useful stepping stone along the way.
But after Copernicu's time, Tycho Brahe devised new equipment for measuring planets' positions more accurately than ever before, and these showed inaccuracies in Copernicus's model that could not be explained away by saying the measurements were poor.
The new data led Kepler to the idea of elliptical orbits for the planets and this idea has stuck.
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∙ 9y agoMany people disagreed with Copernicus because too many of his ideas were absurd. He used lots of mathematics that was difficult to understand.
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∙ 16y agocause he WAS GREASE
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Why did the church condemn Galileo's astronomcal findings?
Actually, Galileo had a large following among the Roman Curia, including the pope. However, Galileo got himself into trouble by teaching that the heliocentric (Sun-centered universe) theory was fact. However, at the time it was just a theory or hypothesis and Galileo even stated that he could not prove it. Had he changed his approach to the subject we never would have heard today of the controversy. Unfortunately, Galileo was not a humble person and had quite a temper and sarcastic manner and began to attack the Church in speech and his writing. Even his close friend the pope became the target of his rage. Of course, this did not endear him to the Church and he lost much of his standing with the Roman clergy.
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