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Conceptualisation 🖊️ Legacy story: Heliocentrism, Part I #56

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Legacy Stories are stories that were conceptualised in September 2021, before the timeline was on Tiki-Toki, let alone GitHub. The story in its current form lives here. And you are very welcome to share any thoughts you have on how this story can be improved by commenting below!

Title

Legacy story: Heliocentrism, Part I

Date or Period 📅

1543, when De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium was published.

Elevator Pitch

Copernicus argues, through mathematical approaches, for heliocentrism, the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Justification

Beginning of the end for Galileo

Unformed Thoughts

Heliocentrism is the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way round.

Copernicus had his theory published after his death, in 1543. This was a tactical maneouvre on his part, as the Catholic Church would not have approved of a theory of the universe without the Earth at its centre.

Indeed, the book was later banned by the Church in 1616. This also relates to Galileo Galilei's condemnation by the Church in 1633.