Probably Aristotle; that's just the sort of ego-maniacal stupid thing he would have said.
Just so you'll know; Aristotle was wrong on almost EVERYTHING that he said. His physics were bad, and his Biology was terrible. If Aristotle had been a farmer instead of a philosopher, he probably would have starved to death, because he would have been a failure as a farmer.
It took the world 1500 years to shake off Aristotle's malign influences.
Protagoras apparently said it thousands of years ago.
Uncaring describes the reaction of the universe to the man's assertion in A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane.
It was taught, and considered general knowledge, that the earth was the center of the universe. This went along with the thought that man was superior over all things and that the only thing greater was God, but to communicate with God man had to go to the Church.
At the center of the universe. For A+ students:)
It is the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe.
it is earth
The first scientist to say the earth is not the centre of the whole universe was Nicolaus Copernicus early in the sixteenth century.
Uncaring describes the reaction of the universe to the man's assertion in A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane.
Copernicus
Aristotle
The universe's reaction in the poem can be described as indifferent or apathetic. It does not acknowledge or respond to the man's assertion, highlighting the vastness and insensitivity of the universe.
Scientists
Ptolemy.
Copernicus' calculations were considered extreme because saying that the earth is not the center of the universe is saying that ______ is also not the center the universe.
The church taught that man was the center of the universe and all things evolved around man. Copernicus stated that earth/man was not the center of the universe and the sun was the center. The church saw this as heresy and that it took power from them because they had made themselves the connection between man and God. Since God was the ruler of the universe and determined all of what man saw and did the science of Copernicus was heresy.
Yes, for close to 1,400 years everyone believed the Earth was the center of the universe. It was not till 1543 that a man named Copernicus created a model with the sun as the center of the universe. The Catholic Church clung to the idea of the Earth as the center of the universe for over 90 years.
The Earth-centered or "geo-centric" model.
the universe is isotropic & homogeneous, meaning there is no center. the observable universe has a center, which is the part of the universe we can see. we are at the center of the observable universe.