Who stated that the earth revolves aroudn teh sun rather than around the earth?

Answer 1

Copernicus

Answer 2

Before the Renaissance and Enlightenment, most people depended upon the Bible and the teachings of Aristotle (a great Greek philosopher). They believed that the sun revolved around the earth and this was called the geocentric theory.

Later, as the Renaissance (Renaissance in Latin means "rebirth") came, people began rediscovering old manuscripts from the Greeks, the Romans, and the people from the East. As their knowledge expanded greatly, they also started questioning. The Scientific Method starts with a question. Socrates, also a Greek philosopher, encouraged questioning. So people starte questioning the Bible and Aristotle.

When the Enlightenment rolled in, people discovered new things. For example that the Earth was actually round. Galileo made a telescope and discovered that pendulums swing at certain intervals. Robert Brook found cells. And then Copernicus, Galileo, and some 2000year old philosophers agreed or found out that the Earth was revolved around by the Sun. This was called the heliocentric theory meaning literally "sun center" in Latin.


A summary of a summary: Basically, Galileo is accredited for actual proving and showing that the earth revolves around the sun. However, some Greek philosophers and Middle Eastern scholars and astronomers had discovered this many years before.
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Answer 3

The first person to hold that belief was the Greek astronomer Aristarchos, in the 3rd century BC. Later the idea was revived by Copernicus in the 16th century, and has been widely accepted since then.

Answer 4

The earth revolves around the sun as do all the other planets, the sun doesnt actually move much, its all the planets circling, its common sense.

Answer 5

I Thought that Gallieo Discovered that the sun was the center of the solar system.
In 1610, Galileo published an account of his telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter, using this observation to argue in favor of the sun-centered, Copernican theory of the universe against the dominant earth-centered Ptolemaic and Aristotelian theories. The next year Galileo visited Rome in order to demonstrate his telescope to the influential philosophers and mathematicians of the Jesuit Collegio Romano, and to let them see with their own eyes the reality of the four moons of Jupiter. While in Rome he was also made a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1612, opposition arose to the Sun-centered solar system which Galileo supported. In 1614, from the pulpit of Santa Maria Novella, Father Tommaso Caccini (1574-1648) denounced Galileo's opinions on the motion of the Earth, judging them dangerous and close to heresy. Galileo went to Rome to defend himself against these accusations, but, in 1616, Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino personally handed Galileo an admonition enjoining him neither to advocate nor teach Copernican astronomy.[1] In 1622, Galileo wrote his first book, The Assayer (Saggiatore), which was approved and published in 1623. In 1624, he developed the first known example of the microscope. In 1630, he returned to Rome to apply for a license to print the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632. In October of that year, however, he was ordered to appear before the Holy Office in Rome.

Answer 6

Copernicus discovered it, but was too afraid to publish any of his work.
Galileo confirmed his work and had the balls to publish his studies in a book.

Answer 7

Gallieo discovered that the sun was the center of the solar system.