Copernicus

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Kepler spent 20 years plotting the positions of the planet no he did not.

the church rejected the theory and tried to punish scientists for promoting it.

Galileo used more advanced technology to find stronger observational evidence than Copernicus was ever able to provide.

Many contributions were made by Chinese and Islamic astronomers to modern day astronomy, including the trigonometric methods created to determine the precision of dates, and supernova research.

Copernicus was one of the people that proposed the idea of a heliocentric model of the solar system. Prior to Copernicus most people believed in the geocentric model in which all things revolved around the Earth. He published his ideas in the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestiu (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).

Both scientrusts challenged ideas supported by roman Catholic church

He looked in the sky and saw it, as had many people for thousands of years before him. He did not discover it. It has been possible to see for as long as humans have been around. When it is visible, it is one of the easiest things to see in the sky.

Both models have the Sun in the centre and all the planets going round it, including the Earth.
Copernicus (1543) used a system of circles and epicycles similar to the one used by Ptolemy over a thousand years earlier. Both models represented the movements of the planets among the stars with quite good accuracy.
Kepler (1609) used the novel idea of elliptical orbits for the planets. Tycho Brahe had made new observations with unprecedented accuracy, and Kepler found that the new elliptical model fitted these observations more accurately than the other models.
At the time the new model was published there was no way of deciding which model was right. But, 70-80 years later, Isaac Newton's theoretical discoveries in gravity and dynamics were used to show that the planets must follow elliptical orbits under the force of the Sun's gravity. After that Kepler's model was accepted generally.

It was not about modelling, it was about reality. Galileo was put in jail for heresy after he continued to say publicly that the Copernican model was the absolute truth, after he had been told by the church that he could use it and teach it only as a model to represent the planets.

The model that is now accepted by everyone including the church is the one discovered by Kepler in 1609, which Galileo did not accept at the time because it uses elliptical orbits instead of the perfect circles of the Copernican theory.

The revolution of the planets about the sun, but he wanted to use circles.

In the time of the Tudors, 1485-1603, it was believed that what is stated in the Bible, about the Earth being at the centre of the universe, must be true.

Towards the end of that time, and in the Elizabethan era, Copernicus's theory that puts the Sun at the centre of the solar system was being discussed, and it was used by Kepler at the end of that era to show that all the planets including the Earth move in elliptical orbits round the Sun.

Final proof came when the Sun was found to be far more massive than the planets, but that didn't happen until the 18th century.

When Galileo observed that the planet Jupiter has moons which are in orbit around the planet, this made it more believable that planets orbit the sun, since it was already established that not everything orbits the Earth, as had previously been believed in the Ptolemaic system.

The Church took the Bible literally, and they interpreted a verse that said the Sun stayed still. They said that Copernicus and Galileo where traitors of the bible and condemned them.

Sir Isaac Newton

Edwin Hubble was a proponent of the heliocentric model, which places the Sun at the center of the solar system, rather than the Earth. His work in astronomy, particularly his discovery of the expansion of the universe, contributed to the understanding of the cosmos as we know it today.

Yes he did.

For most of his childhood his family was his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode the Younger,

The similarity is that both theories used a system of circles and epicycles to explain how the planets move around. Copernicus's theory (1543) used a similar number of epicycles, but many of them were smaller so that the paths followed by the planets were geometrically simpler.

The difference was that Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre rather than the Earth as the ancient theory had done.

Another theory was later produced by Kepler (1609), which used Copernicus's idea of having the Sun at the centre, but Kepler used elliptical orbits for the planets. This new model fitted observational measurements better, but it was not until many years later after the discovery of the law of gravity and the laws of motion (1687) that it was possible to pick out Kepler's theory as the correct one that is still in use today.

Yes, that's what "geocentric" means.

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If you mean when he was born to his death it is february 2 1473 and died may 24 1543 he was 70 years old

Because he was the first astronomer in modern times to devise a new model of the planets' orbits with the Sun at the centre. Copernicus's model of 1543 was rejected after Kepler's theory of 1609 was supported by later theories of dynamics, but Kepler retained the heliocentric principle and Copernicus's work was an important stage in the process of development of ideas.

because in this book he answered many of the arguments people had used against the idea of a moving earth.