UNIVERSE
SURVEY OF THE PLANETS
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Its own movement
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The movement of stars and planets
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Earth’s tilt
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Earth’s rotation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Copernican Revolution, shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric understanding of the universe, centred around Earth, to a heliocentric understanding, centred around the Sun, as articulated by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -heliocentrism, a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Copernicus’s Theory Can Be Summarized Like This: 01-The center of the Earth is not the center of the Universe, only of Earth’s gravity and of the lunar sphere. 02-The Sun is fixed and all other spheres revolve around the Sun. (Copernicus retained the idea of spheres and of perfectly circular orbits.