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Copernican

Revolution
- Nicolaus Copernicus -
COPERNICAN REVOLUTION ?
It is a major shift of worldwide views
FROM believing that the Earth is the
center of the universe TO believing that
the Sun is the center of the solar system.
This model believed that
the Earth is the center of
the Universe.

Geocentric
This theory was supported by

Aristotle Ptolemy
Geocentric
Geocentric Heliocentric
This model believed that
the SUN is the center of
the Universe.

Heliocentric
This theory was supported
by

Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

ASTRONOMER SCIENTIST MATHEMATICIAN


“DE REVOLUTIONIBUS
ORBIUM COELESTIUM”
(On the Revoluion of
Heavenly Spheres)
“DE REVOLUTIONNIBUS ORBIUM
COELESTIUM”

The manuscript was The publication of DE


only published after his REVOLUTIONIBUS
death on 1543. ORBUIM COELESTIUM
started the Copernican
Revolution.
The church is against of
Heliocentric Theory.
Copernican Revolution Scientific Theories and Beliefs

Galileo Galilei Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler


Provided evidence that support Measured the distance of stars : Used Calculus to form laws and
heliocentric theory : The The Geoheliocentric Model. formulas : The Heliocentric
Galilean Moons. Model Factual.
With the given evidence, the
Heliocentric Theory was
proven as the real model of
the Solar System.
—WHY ARE THESE ACHIEVEMENTS IMPORTANT?

—WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEM TODAY?


"To know that we know what
we know, and to know that we
do not know what we do not
know, that is true knowledge."

- Nicolaus Copernicus

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