Copernican Revolution

Claudius Ptolemy

claimed that the existence of days and nights can be explained by the planets, sun, and moon.

Geocentrism

the earth is at the center of the universe

Ptolemy model

most accurate greek explanation about the universe evolution

Ptolemaic model of the universe

uses different epicycles to describe how does the planet move

Ptolemaic model

explained why stellar paralax is not explain by greeks

Ptolemaic model

authority of aristotle behind it

Ptolemaic model

used perfect circles which appear in geometry

nicolaus copernicus

contested the ptolemaic model

copernican heliocentrism

it is published in 1543

copernicus

initiator of scientific revolution

copernican model

went against religious doctrine

tycho and kepler

said that the heliocentric model is correct

heliocentric model

Theory proposing the sun as the center of the solar system, with planets orbiting around it. Developed by Copernicus in the 16th century.

copernican model

the earth rotates on its axis once a day

copernican model

the sun lies at the center of the universe

copernican model

the venus can go all the way down around the sun

copernican model

retrograde motion of mars

galileo galilei

introduced the astronomical telescope

GALILEO

He was the first to investigate the heavenly bodies but he did not invented the telescrope

Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, in the early 17th century

who is the invention of the telescope?

Sir isaac newton

he combined the theories of copernicus, galileo, and kepler into single mathematical equation

law of motion and gravitation

2 law that newton discovered