SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

CELESTIAL MECHANICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which orbital mechanics historical figure was known for being the first to theorize that earth and other planets actually revolved about the sun?
A
Nicolaus Copernicus
B
Tycho Brahe
C
Johannes Kepler
D
Robert Hooke
E
Isaac Newton
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -While Copernicus rightly observed that the planets revolve around the Sun, it was Kepler who correctly defined their orbits.

Detailed explanation-2: -An astronomer named Eudoxus created the first model of a geocentric universe around 380 B.C. Eudoxus designed his model of the universe as a series of cosmic spheres containing the stars, the sun, and the moon all built around the Earth at its center.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “Copernican Revolution” is named for Nicolaus Copernicus, whose Commentariolus, written before 1514, was the first explicit presentation of the heliocentric model in Renaissance scholarship.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nicolaus Copernicus is most widely known for his heliocentric theory of the solar system. This theory states that the Sun is in the center of our solar system and that the Earth and all other planets revolve around it.

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