In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric ...

A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...

In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further ... "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had my eye upon such principles as might work with ...

Before the 17th century most people believed in a geocentric model of the solar system. Dallas explains the geocentric model and then the heliocentric model developed by Kepler, Copernicus and ...

What if in fact the Sun is the centre of the solar system and all the planets, including the Earth, circle the Sun in orbits! My celestial model is called the Heliocentric planetary system.