...conceptions of modern astronomy and the primitive and crude ideas of the ancient astronomers, who thought that the Earth was the centre of the Universe and that the stars were little lamps suspended above the clouds to light up our planet on a dark night ! A study...

...change from the old Ptolemaic to the new Copernican system of Astronomy. The old astronomers believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that the planets revolved about it. The new astronomers discovered that the Earth was not the centre, and that...

...and down to the fifteenth century of the Christian era, all the mathematicians of tae world agreed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun moved. The famous astronomer1 who was the protagonist of the new theory, discovered the movement of...

...China , we find that the Chinese had worked out an astronomical system of their own. They believed the earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun , moon and stars were carried about it, like portable stoves about a person to warm 1 Visitors are...

...in one of the institutions of his country. At that period it was the opinion of all the philosophers that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the change* of day and the seasons were produced by the revolutions of the planets around it. Copernicus...

...published it created not only a sensation, but a lot of trouble for Galileo. At the time, the Church taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun 161 orbited the earth. Galileo's book argued that Copernicus was right, that the earth did orbit the...

...cost you your life. 12.10 Our solar system Dangerous discoveries In earlier times most people believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe, and that the planets, stars and Sun travelled around it in their own orbits. Only a few hundred years ago this was...

...crosses the orbit of Neptune. How can Pluto survive in such an orbit? Ancient philosophers believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe and that the planets moved in circles. This geocentric model survived until Nicolas Copernicus proposed a heliocentric...

...about the origins of the world, or has it all been disproved by the scientists? People used to believe that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, moon and stars were just lights in the sky made to light up the earth. They believed that the whole...

...naked eye because some are too far away and others are not bright enough. Long ago people believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe and that the Universe was made up only of what they could see from Earth. However almost everything we see in the...