UNIVERSE
SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION
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Question
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Earth was much older than had previously thought.
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Earth was no longer thought to be the center of the universe.
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Earth was thought to be created by random factors.
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Earth was thought to be moving differently from other objects in space.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Copernicus’ work was ultimately most significant because it changed the way people used physics and astronomy to understand the universe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In a book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (that was published as Copernicus lay on his deathbed), Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system.