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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