Copernican Revolution

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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