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What did Brahe discover about the universe?

he thought that the earth was the center of the universe


What roman scientist said earth was center of the universe?

Ptolemy.


What scientists thought the Earth was at the center of the universe?

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Eudoxus thought that blank was the center of the universe?

Earth


Who was the scientist who first suggested that the earth was the center of the universe?

Charles eniteisn


Who was Ptotemy?

He was the guy who first thought the earth was the center of the universe


What famous person thought that the earth was at the center of the universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus


Who was the greek scientist who believed the earth was the center of the universe?

Aristotle and Ptolemy - pick one.


What were the early ideas of the solar system and who thought of them?

Aristarchus of Samos thought that the sun was at the center of the universe and some "educated" greek people thought that the earth was the center of the universe but they were dead wrong because modern science now has evidence that the sun is the center of the universe.


Who was the first man who said that the earth is not the center of the universe?

The first scientist to say the earth is not the centre of the whole universe was Nicolaus Copernicus early in the sixteenth century.


Until the 1500s the belief among scientist was that the earth was the center of the universe this is known of what theory?

This belief was known as the geocentric theory, which proposed that the Earth was the stationary center of the universe, with all celestial bodies revolving around it. This theory dominated scientific thought until the development of the heliocentric model by astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th century.


If ancient scientists thought that Earth was the center of the universe and imagined the sky as a blanket that covered the planet why did this early model change?

The invention of the telescope showed that the earth wasn't the center of the universe.