NAME: Teddy Art A.

Orcio STRAND: Humanities and Social Science

SUBJECT: Physical Science TEACHER: Mx. Carlo Jose Dionisio
Week 11: Geocentricity Today
The Heliocentrism Model was proposed by Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus,
who regarded the Sun as having a central position in relation to Earth and other planets.
In 1532, Copernicus completed the first draft of his book, "De Revolutionibus Orbium
Coelestium," also known as "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres." Copernicus
demonstrated in it that the planets revolve around the sun rather than the Earth. He
sketched out his model of the solar system and the planets' paths. Meanwhile, the center
of the universe is a term in contemporary astronomy that lacks a clear definition;
conventional cosmological hypotheses on the form of the universe hold that there is no
center. Historically, the center of the universe was thought to reside at a variety of
locations.
On the other hand, Apart from photographic evidence from space, the Ancient
Greeks deduced that the world is round based on a number of factors. The ships sailing
over the horizon line is one of their observations, which makes sense to me since if the
planet were flat, there would be no horizon beyond which objects could vanish. The
Earth also casts a circular shadow on the moon during an eclipse, according to
Aristotle's observation. Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, also gave us the first
measurement of the earth's curve. He realized the sun was at a different angle in the sky
because the buildings in one city did not create a shadow while the buildings in the other
city did. He measured the angle of the shadow thrown by the city's skyscrapers by
sticking a stick in the ground. Making use of the distance, he was able to compute the
earth's curvature from the two cities. Different time zones and stars' appearance in
different places are also proofs that the Earth is round.