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