HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
It required a revision of the Christian calendar.
|
|
|
It disputed Church teachings regarding the universe.
|
|
|
Either A or B
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Copernicus taught that the sun was the center of the solar system. The teaching of Copernicus clearly contradicted the teachings of Aristotle and therefore the teachings and authority of the Catholic Church.
Detailed explanation-3: -But four centuries ago, the idea of a heliocentric solar system was so controversial that the Catholic Church classified it as a heresy, and warned the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to abandon it.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.