Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the solar system. He suggested a heliocentric model of the universe, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This idea was revolutionary but was not widely accepted in his time.
That was the general belief held in antiquity.
Aristotle believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. This geocentric model was later supported by Ptolemy in his work "Almagest".
The theory that the Earth was the center of the universe was popularized by Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer, in the 2nd century AD. This geocentric model of the universe was widely accepted in Western societies until the heliocentric model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.
Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, proposed the heliocentric model in the 16th century, suggesting that the Sun is at the center of the universe with the Earth and other planets orbiting around it. This idea challenged the prevailing geocentric model, where Earth was considered the center of the universe.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy was the Roman astronomer who incorrectly argued that Earth was the center of the universe in his geocentric model. His theories dominated Western thought for over a thousand years.
Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the solar system. He suggested a heliocentric model of the universe, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This idea was revolutionary but was not widely accepted in his time.
Ptolemy
That was the general belief held in antiquity.
It wasn't a polish astronomer that suggested the earth was not the center of the universe.
Copernicus was a polish astronomer that first formed the theory that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
The idea that the Earth was the center of the universe was adopted because of the writings of Ptolemy and Aristotle. This was a common belief until the 1700s.
Copernicus
Aristotle believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. This geocentric model was later supported by Ptolemy in his work "Almagest".
The Catholic church taught that the earth was the center of the universe and all things moved around the earth. Man was the greatest creature of the universe.
HE was the first astronomer to figure out the earth wasn't the center of the universe the sin was it was the heliocentric theory