GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ptolemy
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Francis Bacon
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Isaac Newton
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. His theory took more than a century to become widely accepted.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is now known as the geocentric model, while the heliocentric model puts the sun at the center. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model in his work published in 1543, according to NASA Earth Observatory (opens in new tab).
Detailed explanation-3: -Earlier earth was considered to be at the center and all celestial bodies move around it. But later on Nicholas Copernicus proposed another model called ‘Heliocentric model’ where sun was placed at the center and all the celestial bodies including the earth revolve around it.