what scientist first proposed that the sun is the center of the solar system?

Question

1) Copernicus
2) Ptolemy
3) Kepler
4) Brahe

Answer 1

Copernicus

The idea of the sun being the center of the solar system, known as heliocentrism, is found in several Vedic Sanskrit texts written in ancient India (9th–8th century BC); in ancient greece by, Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BC); in Hellenistic Babylonia, based on Aristarchus by Seleucus of Seleucia (b. 190 BC); Medieval India, by Aryabhata (476–550); the Islamic world, by Ibn al-Haytham (c. 1000); and finally Renaissance Europe by Copernicus in 1543, which was later elaborated by Kepler and defended by Galileo.

Answer 2

Copernicus, but it was Galileo who took the rap from the Roman Catholic church for promoting the "theory". He faced excommunication and burning at the stake for heresy until he "recanted" and conformed to the Church's dictates.

Some of the traditions of the Church depended on the Earth being the center of the universe, as promoted by Ptolemy and it took a preponderance of scientific evidence to change the religious mindset.

Answer 3

1) Copernicus

Answer 4

1) Copernicus. He actually got the idea from Aristarchus, however, who lived in Greece long before him. Copernicus is known as the first European scientist to propose it.

Answer 5

Copernicus is true.

Galileo wasn't born until 1564. Copernicus died in 1543.

Answer 6

Copernicus???

Answer 7

Copernicus. But he bailed.

Answer 8

I believe it was Galileo and for this he was branded a hertic by the church of his day.

Answer 9

none of the above

Answer 10

Do your own homework!