The Earth is stationary at the centre of the universe, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars revolving around it in crystalline spheres.
Geocentrism, supported by ancient Greek authorities and religious doctrine, persisted even through the Middle Ages and into the 17th century despite telescopic evidence. Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton provided astronomical observations and mathematical proofs that the Sun is the centre of our solar system and the Earth orbits it. By the 18th century, heliocentrism was universally accepted in scientific communities, supported by stellar parallax observations and confirmed by modern satellite measurements.
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- Geocentrism and the Copernican Revolution REFERENCE
- History of Heliocentrism PRIMARY