HOW did Da Vinci Prove that WE revolve around the sun?

Question

is there a name for that theory and how did he fugure i out? many thanks

Answer 1

Copernicus, chief.

Stellar Aberration...learn it, live it, love it.

Answer 2

Yes, Copernicus put forward the theory, Galileo observed and Kepler did the math.

But at the end of the day, once you kill the church's Medieval insistence that the Earth had to be the center of all things, the reality of the sun and its spinning circling planets becomes the only logical explanation for what is observed.

Otherwise, you have to consider how the sun, 1.3 million times the size of the Earth, can scoot around the Earth in a day (along with the rest of the universe), when the simple explanation is that it is the Earth rotating that gives the impression that everything circles it.

Also, until people stopped believing the nonsense of the Earth being central and stationary, so-called astronomers had to account for the crazy motions of the planets by inventing circles within circles within circles. By putting the sun at the center with the planets revolving around it, the observed motions are as simple as clockwork, and entirely as one would expect.

PS - Although Da Vinci was not involved in the new science of heliocentricm, the guy above who said he just painted things was wrong. Da Vinci was very much into science, and actually drew the plans of a flying machine. He also produced drawings of many other fantastic inventions.

brilliant man.

Answer 3

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. He was no physicist or astronomer.

You mean Galileo. And Galileo did not prove Copernicus right, either. He just showed that there are other objects in the sky (namely Jupiter) around which moons orbit. So it became evident that the Church doctrine that everything else orbits around the Earth was wrong. That does not prove that the Earth orbits around the sun. In order to get that right you need Kepler's observations, Newton's theory of gravity to explain them and stellar parallax (observed in 1838 by Bessel), to name just a few ingredients. Of course by 1838 only the same kinds of idiots who believe in geocentrism today actually believed that the sun was moving around the Earth.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I don't believe Da Vinci proved that. Copernicus proposed the theory that Earth revolves around the Sun, called the "heliocentric theory", but did not really prove it. Many people after that gave evidence of it, like Galileo and Kepler and others, but it was never really proved by one person with one experiment.

Answer 5

Da vinci didn't prove it Galileo did but it was based off the Heliocentric Therory by Nicolaus Copenicus in the early 1500s

Answer 6

Amansci probably has the closest answer, but I wanted to add that the name of the theory for the Sun being at the center is Heliocentrism, as opposed to Geocentrism (Earth in the center)

Answer 7

It was actually Copernicus and Galileo, but they did it by observing retrograde motion, and the fact that a lot of asteroids actually orbited other things.

Some other person also discovered parallax, if I'm not mistaken, based on how the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Answer 8

He didn't. Get your facts straight. Check into Copericanism.

Answer 9

Try Copernicus and you'l have better luck.

Answer 10

I was wondering the same question myself yesterday