GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

BIG BANG THEORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In what year did Copernicus publish his manuscript about his theory of the solar system?
A
1300
B
1476
C
1776
D
1543
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Some time before 1514 Copernicus made available to friends his “Commentariolus” ("Little Commentary"), a manuscript describing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis. It contained seven basic assumptions (detailed below).

Detailed explanation-2: -A Heliocentric Theory. By 1532 Copernicus had mostly completed a detailed astronomical manuscript he had been working on for 16 years. He had resisted publishing it for fear of the ensuing controversy and out of hope for more data.

Detailed explanation-3: -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).

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