USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Theory developed by Copernicus that the sun is the center of the universe is called.
A
Scientific Revolution
B
Geocentric Theory
C
Heliocentric Theory
D
Natural rights
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Copernicus adopted a heliocentric view because it better explained the motions of the heavens mathematically. This view had the Earth and other planets moving in circles around the fixed Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Nicholas Copernicus proposed the ‘Heliocentric model’.

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