Who stated that the planets move around the sun like an eclipse?

Answer 1

You mean what is the oval shape around the sun , its probly its outer gas energy you know the onces it lets out that cause solar storms somethimes or just the shine of it or maybe a galaxy that surrounds it partially idk that's just what I think right now .

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Answer 2

It is not known who first thought that the Earth circled (orbited) the sun. However Galileo Galilei is the most famous supporter of the concept in the 16th century before it become widely accepted.

Answer 3

In the 16th century there were two competing systems, the heliocentric (Sun centered) and geocentric (Earth centered), to describe the motion of the Earth, Sun, moon and planets.

Five hundred years ago people thought the Earth was a stationary solid and unmoving body and the moon, stars and Sun revolved around the Earth. That was called the geocentric, or Earth centered, system.

Nicolaus Copernicus published the statement of his heliocentric, or sun centered, system in his book, De Revolutionibus, in 1543. In the geocentric theory, the Sun is unmoving at the center of the universe and the stars and Earth orbits around the Sun. The moon still orbits around the Earth, however.

Answer 4

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) published his computations of the heliocentric orbits of the planets in 1543, just before his death. His book was titled "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).

Answer 5

Nicolas Copernicus, a polish monk was the first to dare publish such a notion. He made sure that it was done posthumously (after he was dead) though.

There might be some before him but as they didn't dare publish verifying their claim is a bit difficult.

Answer 6

It's an optical illusion caused by the bending of the light rays as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere. In fact, when the Sun appears oval like that, the Sun is actually BELOW the horizon, the the atmosphere is refracting the light around the curvature of the Earth. The reason that sunrises and sunsets look red is because the red light is bent, or refracted, more than other colors - so the red rays go further around the Earth while the other colors pass on through the atmosphere and out into space again.

Answer 7

That is called an orbit. The planets' orbits are technically ellipses. In practice they are very nearly circular but the Sun is not exactly at the centre of the circle, so the distance varies through the year.

Answer 8

The first person to think up this theory was Nicolaus Copernicus, but Galileo Galilei was one who believed the heliocentric model and credited for ''discovering'' it. He was also imprisoned for believing such an idea.

Answer 9

The theory was officially written down by Plato, teacher of Aristotle, in 4th century B.C. Most ancient Greek astronomers followed the lead. The most recent well-known astronomer to hold to the theory was Tycho Brahe, in 16th century A.D. He created a revised geocentric model which explained the motion of planets pretty accurately, but the motion paths were much more complicated than the heliocentric model.

Answer 10

um... it think you're a little mixed up. in days gone by, it was the churches view that humans were so incredibly divine (because they were made in HIS divine image) that we must be at the centre of the universe, and therefore the sun revolved around us. then Galileo Galilei said. that's not right!!!! we're going around it!!!! and the church locked him up coz the church is stupid, and then about a century or something like that later the church had to admit that they were wrong as usual. and then recently the pope admitted that he believed in macro evolution. how cool is that?? some sanity in the vatican at last!!!!