Basically everyone, until just a few centuries ago.
It feels that way. You can not feel the Earth moving.
Before the heliocentric model of the solar system, people believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe. This geocentric model was commonly accepted in ancient times and throughout the Middle Ages.
They believed in a heliocentric universe. This meaning that the earth was not the center of the universe, but that the sun was. However, many people , including the church, did not agree with this theory. Instead they believed in a geocentric universe. Plato and Aristotle believed in this theory.
Though many accepted the geocentric model of the universe, it was designed by the famous astronomer Ptolemy.
Ancient astronomers like Ptolemy believed in a geocentric model, where the Earth was at the center of the universe and all celestial bodies revolved around it. This view was later challenged by Copernicus, who proposed a heliocentric model placing the Sun at the center of the solar system.
they believed that the earth was the center.
The Earth!
It feels that way. You can not feel the Earth moving.
No--he believed that the sun was the center of the universe.
No--he believed that the sun was the center of the universe.
No--he believed that the sun was the center of the universe.
Pythagoras
Before the heliocentric model of the solar system, people believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe. This geocentric model was commonly accepted in ancient times and throughout the Middle Ages.
They believed in a heliocentric universe. This meaning that the earth was not the center of the universe, but that the sun was. However, many people , including the church, did not agree with this theory. Instead they believed in a geocentric universe. Plato and Aristotle believed in this theory.
Nicolas Copernicus believed that the sun was the center of the solar system. Before that most believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
He believed that the earth was the center of the universe.
A long time ago, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, a theory known as the geocentric model. This idea was eventually replaced by the heliocentric model, which places the Sun at the center of the solar system, proposed by astronomers like Copernicus and Galileo.