Whose theory of the universe was held as law for thouasands of years even though it was wrong?

Answer 1

You're probably thinking of Aristotle, whose work from the 4th century BC was widely held to be true until around 1600 when Galileo challenged his theories.

Aristotle was a philosopher, not a scientist, and believed that you could figure out natural laws just by thinking about them. Galileo showed that experimentation could show where Aristotle had it wrong - gravity, for example.

Answer 2

A concept that held as a regulation for thousand yeas, regardless of if it grew to become into incorrect is Aristotle thought Ether 5th remember 2) Lemaitre between with Einstein 4) Nicolas he's the only that found out that solar grew to become into the midsection.

Answer 3

Going back to the 4th century BC Plato and his student Aristotle first described the 'Geocentric' view of the universe.

In this view, the Earth was considered the center of the universe with the planets, stars and sun revolving around the unmoving Earth.

This view was later expanded by Claudius Ptolemy.

Harkening the end of the dark ages, and the beginning of the renaissance, the views of Galilleo, Copernicus and Kepler eventually replaced this view with the 'sun as center' with the Earth and other planets revolving around. This more correct view is termed heliocentrism.

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Answer 4

I'd say Ptolemy.

But it was more like 1400 years, not 1000s. Unless you count the ancient Babylonians, but there is no specific Babylonian astronomer that I am aware of associated with geocentrism.

Edit: Ancient Babylonian: Kidinnu, may be the answer to this question.

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Answer 5

Aristotle? I think thousandSSSS is a bit of an exageration, couple thousand max.