Copernicus: The Discovery of the Heliocentric Revolution
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50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Copernicus and his discoveries.When Copernicus discovered the Heliocentric Revolution, it marked a turning point in astronomy. He changed the way people understood the planets and the solar system forever and called into question the observations made by Aristotle and Ptolemy. Copernicus’ findings were not easily accepted and he faced a great deal of controversy and even anger. But soon a growing number of astronomers began using his discovery to influence their own work thus triggering the Copernican Revolution, changing the way we understand astronomy forever.
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• Learn about how Copernicus discovered the Heliocentric Revolution and changed our understanding of the universe
• Discover more about his life and education in Poland and Italy
• Analyse the impact his discovery had at the time and in the future and how it triggered the Copernican Revolution
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Copernicus - 50minutes
Born: 19 February 1473 in Toruń, Poland
Died: 24 May 1543 in Frauenburg, modern-day Frombork, Poland
Major achievement: formulating a heliocentric model of the solar system
The name Copernicus is synonymous with a major turning point in the history of astronomy. For fourteen centuries, planetary observation and calculations had been based on Aristotelian and Ptolemaic theory, which held that the Earth was stationary in the middle of a finite universe, orbited by the other planets and extra-terrestrial objects in a realm beyond which lived monsters, gods and angels. Copernicus changed all of this forever, introducing a new system which harboured the seeds of a revolution.
The early 17th century is marked by monumental change. Equipped with new technologies, explorers took to the seas in search of new passages to new lands. While Copernicus was studying in Krakow, Christopher Columbus (1450/1451-1506) discovered America. At the same time, humanism was transforming the intellectual sphere, cultivating a thirst for knowledge driven by Europe’s rediscovery of its antique roots and enriched by the intellectual explosion from the medieval East. The Roman Catholic Church was equally shaken to its core by the Protestant Reformation, and found its second wind through its own counter-reformation.
This period, characterised by a cultural return to antiquity, is nonetheless marked a profound separation from the intellectual traditions for which Claudius Ptolemy (100-170 AD) was responsible. He was a true polymath; a mathematician, geographer and astronomer who established precedents in geography and astronomy which would last for an astonishing length of time. However, the discovery of America showed the cracks in his geographic model and Nicolaus Copernicus too would transform Ptolemy’s theory of