A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized ...

The paper discusses Tycho Brahe’s geo-heliocentric system, arguing that it represents a good instance of a failed synthesis. First, the Author analyzes the physical and metaphysical principles ...

What moved Copernicus to switch from the time-honored geocentric to a heliocentric setup for the planetary system? He himself did not explain this momentous move in any detail—his only comments about ...

The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and that everything else – planets, asteroids, comets and the rest – revolves around it. Prior to heliocentrism, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Both of the Solar System’s giant planets will be gone from ...

In 1543, Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published his theory of a heliocentric universe in which the Earth and other celestial objects revolve around the sun. It was met with ...