Both Copernicus heliocentric and the Ptolemaic models agreed on the need for epicycles. These were miniature orbits that the celestial bodies travelled on as well as their normal orbits.
Copernicus still invigaed the bodies orbiting in perfect circles and had to put these in to explain some of the movements of the planets. This may have contributed to his ideas being largely dismissed as it was just as complicated as the already established model. It was not until Kepler proposed elliptical orbits was this problem resolved.
The planetary models of Ptolemy and Copernicus both used a circular orbit with a combination of epicycles to describe the path taken by each planet. Both models used 40-50 epicycles in the complete model.
The major difference was that Ptolemy had the Earth at the centre in line with the thinking in ancient Greece, while Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre. He found that this simplified the paths followed by the planets.
After Copernicus it took at least another 150 years to sort out the theory of the planets that we use today.
Copernicus agreed with Ptolemy that planets have epicycles. Copernicus agreed with Hipparchus that planets have a steady orbit.
ptolemy theory is a geocentric theory while copernicus theory is a heliocentric theory.
All orbits must be perfect circles.
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Nicholas Copernicus
Copernicus and Galileo
Stellar parallax could not be observed until hundreds of years after Copernicus: the effect is very small. Rejection of the Copernican system was not irrational.
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his model of the universe.
Nicholas Copernicus
Copernicus and Galileo
Stellar parallax could not be observed until hundreds of years after Copernicus: the effect is very small. Rejection of the Copernican system was not irrational.
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Copernicus's model thought that the planets orbited the sun. Ptolemy's model thought that the planets orbited the moon.No. The above answer is incorrect.Copernicus's model thought that the planets orbited the sun. Ptolemy's model thought that the planets orbited the EARTH in epicycles. Not the moon. (The model that modeled the planets orbiting earth was the Geocentric model. Aristotle theorized this.)Copernicus's model is known as the Heliocentric model. Ptolemy's theory of epicycles is when the planets revolved in large circles around Earth.
his model of the universe.
Earth was the center of the universe
What are the similarities and differences between the Hoyt and Burgess
The similarities between a map and model is they both represent something real and they both help you understand something.
it was know in ancient times that Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, and Copernicus had a model which had the Sun at the centre, so in his model Venus was closer to the centre, thus an inferior planet by definition.
Copernicus
it was know in ancient times that Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, and Copernicus had a model which had the Sun at the centre, so in his model Venus was closer to the centre, thus an inferior planet by definition. That was in about 1560.