Copernican Revolution

• The first paradigm shift in intellectual revolution was on the field of

  Astronomy Particularly Cosmology
• Is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the earth's atmosphere.

  Astronomy
• Is the study of the universe and it's components, how it formed, how its evolved and its future.

  Cosmology
• Proposed Geocentrism, Earth centered belief(Greek Philosopher)

  Aristotle
• He improved Aristotle's observation by using measurement using epicycles planetary orbits

  Claudius Ptolemy
• one of the most greatest discoveries of that time

  Geocentric Model
• Postulated Heliocentrism

  Aristarchus Of Samos
• His findings supported the Heliocentric Model written in his book "On the Revolution of the Celestial Sphere"

  Nicholaus Copernicus
• Took of with the accusation of more precise data on the movement and position of planets around the sun

  Copernican Revolution
• He proved that planets moved in elliptical orbits around the sun


  Johannes Kepler
• The most precise equipment available before the telescope by Tycho Brahe

  Tychonic System
• His telescopic observation of the four moons of Jupiter proved that celestial bodies did not revolve around the sun on his book "The Starry Messenger"

  Galileo Galilei
• He bought the triumph of Heliocentrism by using gravity to explain the movement of the planets around the sun

  Isaac Newton
• Heliocentrism By Copernicus then became the paradigm shift to the paradigm of

  Geocentrism