The invention of the telescope showed that the earth wasn't the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus < NOVA NET ANSWER
No, Aristarchus of Samos proposed a heliocentric model of the universe with the Sun at the center and the Earth revolving around it. This idea was contrary to the prevalent geocentric model at the time.
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.
Earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy.
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The invention of the telescope showed that the earth wasn't the center of the universe.
Aristotle and Ptolemy - pick one.
The first scientist to say the earth is not the centre of the whole universe was Nicolaus Copernicus early in the sixteenth century.
Nicolaus Copernicus < NOVA NET ANSWER
Pretty sure it was Ptolemy.
That the Earth is a center of the Universe. The root of this model is already in Timaeus by Plato where Timaeus describes it.
This model of the universe placed the Earth at the center of the universe
No, Aristarchus of Samos proposed a heliocentric model of the universe with the Sun at the center and the Earth revolving around it. This idea was contrary to the prevalent geocentric model at the time.
No, the Bible does not explicitly state that the Earth is the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. So yes I guess you can say he was a scientist.