Before heliocentrism was proposed, Earth was thought to be at the center of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

We know that the Catholic church has a troubled history with the idea of heliocentrism, but when did this history become history? What year would Galileo have gotten away with publishing his book?

Galileo collected mountains of observational evidence both supporting heliocentrism and challenging Aristotelian thinking. Of course, today we know without a shadow of a doubt that the Earth ...

Prior to heliocentrism, the dominant belief was that all celestial bodies revolved around Earth. This theory, called "geocentrism", was popularised by Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the ...

In November 1859, Charles Darwin published his seminal book on the Origin of Species. His studies caused a pivotal change in how we view ourselves just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543 ...

The anime focuses on Heliocentrism and Geocentrism, determining the position of the earth in the universe and if it rotates ...

Instead, the show changes focus to follow several people across many decades, each being introduced to the Heliocentrism theory and becoming incapable of dropping the thought of doing research to ...

We think it’s obvious that the Earth goes around the sun, today, but back before Copernicus, detractors had the most obvious argument possible against heliocentrism. To combat this, in his ...