Want to create interactive content? It’s easy in Genially!
SI Genially
Jaswanth Yadlapally
Created on November 1, 2023
Start designing with a free template
Discover more than 1500 professional designs like these:
Transcript
What is Heliocentrism?
Heliocentrism is the theory that Nicolaus Copernicus came up with. The theory is that the center of the universe is not the Earth, which was believed, but the Sun. Which also meant that all the planets including Earth orbited the Sun.
Was Heliocentrism Accepted or Denied?
When Nicolaus Copernicus first shared his theory in 1543 it was denied. The reason why it was denied was because its proponents could not explain why the relative positions of the stars seemed to remain the same despite the Earth's changing viewpoints as it moved around the Sun. However after about a decade Heliocentism was accepted from the discoveries of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton.
Nicolaus Copernicus
How did Copernicus Come up With Heliocentrism?
Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the theory of Heliocentrism by very carefully studying planetary models. After analyzing Ptolemaic model, he figured out that it was inaccurate. The reason why Copernicus thought the Ptolemaic model was inaccurate was because he thought it was too complicated and unrealistic. The reason why the Ptolemaic model is so complicated is because it took advanced trigonometry to explain how the planets moved.