Nicolaus Copernicus is usually credited with the heliocentric model of the solar system (actually, he had thought the whole Universe, but that's a different story). However, philosophers in India and among the Muslim world were thinking this long before Copernicus released his work (postumously).
2006-07-11 15:15:41
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answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6
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Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of the solar system in his epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in Royal Prussia, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Poland. He was educated in Poland and Italy, and spent most of his working life in Frombork (Frauenburg), Warmia, where he died in 1543.
Copernicus was one of the great polymaths of the Renaissance. He was a mathematician, astronomer/astrologer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist, and soldier. Amid his extensive responsibilities, he treated astronomy as an avocation. However, his formulation of how the sun rather than the earth is at the center of the universe is considered one of the most important scientific hypotheses in history. It came to mark the starting point of modern astronomy and, in turn, of modern science, encouraging young astronomers, scientists and scholars to take a more skeptical attitude toward established dogma.
2006-07-11 16:10:30
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answered by know it all 3
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Copernicus published a book at the right time for it to gain notice of the people who would use it to make a difference (his theory though on the right track was still lacking and was refined by others).
BUT he wasn't not the first. Listen to the people above who mentioned other people as being the first, they are indeed correct. All I knew was that he wasn't the first and that some earlier people also theorized so. I'm glad to have learned something today.
With overwhelming answers to the contrary, I wanted to ensure notice of the people who were right on.
2006-07-11 17:02:00
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answered by astronwritingthinkingprayingrnns 2
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Nicolaus Copernicus
2006-07-11 15:08:36
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answered by G.V. 6
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many of the geniuses were no longer awesome in college, commonly did not fit and were fascinated in technique of sth else. yet Copernicus became an effective pupil contained in the Cracow Academy, purely that he became no longer the richest one... Secondly, you likely despise him because of his nationality, too. properly, in case you pick Galileo, he sais an similar ingredient, so that you'll believe him perchance. And the perfect yet no longer the least - actual, sb prooved that the individuals were under no circumstances on the moon, and that the images were fabricated in a studio. Why may human beings believe that some American individuals purely made a visit to face on the moon, and that some Armstrong became the first to do it...??? :P
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answered by ? 3
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Nicholaus Copernicus
2006-07-11 16:27:37
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answered by Mr MOJO123 2
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Yajnavalkya, an indian astronomer is the first person recorded to have suggested a heliocentric universe. The first western astronomers to suggest it were ancient Greek astronomers. First Aristarchus of Samos, and then Hipparchus who actually calculated that planetary motion could be explained by heliocentricity if we assumed elliptical orbits.
COPERNICUS WAS NOT THE FIRST TO SUGGEST HELIOCENTRICITY. He just gets all of the credit in popular history. And when he suggested it, he didn't even get it right. He thought orbits were circular.
2006-07-11 17:28:13
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answered by venus19000 2
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the first sun-centered universe proposal was by Aristarchos in 300 BC, however Nicholas Copernicus capitalized on this in 1543 AD
yeah sorry bout being repetetive w/ what venus just said
2006-07-11 17:37:45
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answered by P. Charles 2
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Nicolas Copernicus was a polish astronomer who is generally credited with the theory
2006-07-11 15:13:02
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answered by Anonymous
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The first heliocentrist was an Indian named Yajnavalkya.
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answered by insideoutsock 3
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