Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the concept of a sun-centred universe in the 16th century.
The Enlightenment thinker thought it was important to understand the universe because it changed how people looked at everything on the whole, and began to question religion and the scripture. Copernicus first suggested the universe did not revolve around the earth.Copernican heliocentrism and Galileo's discoveries caused men of science to take another look at the universe. To these investigators, the earth became a rather insignificant speck of dust floating in the cosmos.
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Ptolemy was the first person to introduce the theory of a geocentric universe, a universe in which everything revolves around the earth itself. But in 1543, Nicolas Copernicus was the first person to introduce and prove the idea that the universe is heliocentric, a universe in which everything revolves around the sun.
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans were the first to assert that mathematical harmony could be found in the universe's underlying structures. They believed that numbers and mathematical relationships were at the core of all aspects of the universe, which they called the harmony of the spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the concept of a sun-centred universe in the 16th century.
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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.
The first philosopher to develop the idea of atomism was Leucippus, who lived in the 5th century BCE. He proposed that the universe is composed of tiny, indivisible particles called atoms. His ideas were further developed by his student, Democritus.