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He helped, but the idea had been advanced some decades before by the Polish astronomer Mikolai Kupernik, aka Copernicus, and actually centuries before that by Aristarchus, a Greek philosopher.

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How is the geocentric view different from the heliocentric view?

In astronomy, the geocentric model or the Ptolemaic worldview of the universe is the superseded theory that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it. Belief in this system was common in ancient Greece. It was embraced by both Aristotle and Ptolemy, and most Ancient Greek philosophers assumed that the Sun, Moon, stars, and naked eye planets circle the Earth. Similar ideas were held in ancient China.Two common observations were believed to support the idea that the Earth is in the center of the Universe: The first observation is that the stars, sun, and planets appear to revolve around the Earth each day, with the stars circling around the pole and those stars nearer the equator rising and setting each day and circling back to their rising point.[2]; the second is the common sense perception that the Earth is solid and stable it is not moving-but is at rest. The geocentric model was usually combined with a spherical Earth by ancient Greek and medieval philosophers. It is not the same as the older flat Earth model implied in some mythology. The ancient Greeks believed that the motions of the planets were circular and not elliptical, a view that was not challenged in western culture before the 17th century. The geocentric model held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced by the heliocentric model of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Today, geocentric cosmology survives as a literary element within alternate history and science fiction. By Edem Uboh(Lead City University,Ibadan.)


Who developed the heliocentric theory in ancient times?

No, the idea goes back to the ancient Greeks; Aristarchus of Samos, a mathematician and astronomer, is the first person (that we know of!) to have suggested the idea that the Sun was at the center of the solar system. But Aristotle insisted that the Earth was the center of all things, and his ideas were accepted. Copernicus was the first person to demonstrate mathematically how it would work, and his concepts have been generally proven to be correct. So he generally gets the credit.

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