... in a more accurate way. By looking at the universe in a heliocentric manner he began to break away from binds of Ptolemy's thinking. Like the artists of the Renaissance who gave a rebirth to classical art, Copernicus looked to the ancient world and their worship of the sun to develop his hypothesis of a sun-based universe. However, in departing from the Ptolemaic system, and ... ...

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