HELIOCENTRIC

Heliocentric (sun-centered)
Helio means Sun
Centric means Center
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–
1543), the man credited with
the creation of the Heliocentric
model of the Universe.
Copernicus’ proposed a model
of the Universe where the
Earth, the planets and the stars
all revolved around the Sun
Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the
astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus
 and published in 1543. It positioned the Sun near 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. The
Copernican model displaced the geocentric model of 
Ptolemy that had prevailed for centuries, placing Earth
at the center of the Universe.
Galileo was the first one to direct a telescope to the
starts and he approved Copernicus Theory
Based on ongoing observations of the motions of the
planets, as well as previous theories from classical antiquity
and the Islamic World, Copernicus’ proposed a model of the
Universe where the Earth, the planets and the stars all
revolved around the Sun. Copernicus was not the first to
propose a model of the Universe.
A sun-centered model was finally adopted by
seventeenth-century scientists