1. Humanity, the Universe and the Scientific Revolution
... for a geocentric model of the universe to work, there would have to be very complicated orbits that just didnt make sense. Copernicus had thought of the universe as heliocentric, but he also had the idea of perfectly circular orbits. Isaac Newton, with help from the telescope, discovered that the universe is heliocentric, and the orbits arent complicated, or perfect circles, but ... and that the universe was geocentric. Heavenly spheres meant that the orbits are perfect circles and planets and stars were perfect smooth circles. Also that around the planets was a firmament, a ring of sta...
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