HELIOCENTRIC THEORY

BY
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

PRESENTED BY:
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 • Born in February 19, 1473, in
the land of Thorn, Poland and
died on May 24, 1543, in
Frombork, Poland.

• Polish Mathematician and

Astronomer

• Formulated the heliocentric

model of the universe.
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
• Nicholas Copernicus is the
father of modern
astronomy.
• The first European scientist
who propose that earth and
the other planets revolve
around the sun and
published it around 1543.
• Presented the Heliocentric
Theory of the solar system.
• His ideas were a huge
example of thought
experiment.
• He was also chosen as a
canon at Frombork
Cathedral in Poland.
• Copernicus was also
influenced to write his De
revolutionibus.by a book
Epitome.
HOW DID COPERNICUS PROVED HIS THEORY?

• The observation of his theory was the used of his

naked eye.

• Copernicus also included to his theory that the

earth’s motion rotating to its daily axis affected what
people saw in the heaven.

• The theory was then recognized by telescope of

Galileo who was the first person who studied about
the skies using a tool proving that Copernicus was
correct.
• Copernicus died even before the telescope was
invented.
 WHAT IS THE COPERNICAN THEORY OR THE HELIOCENTRIC
THEORY?

• The Copernican system in astronomy is

the model of the solar system.

• It gave a truer picture than the older

Ptolemaic System.

• The model of the solar system that is

centred on the sun, with the other
planets moving around it.
PTOLEMAIC MODEL HELIOCENTRIC MODEL
BY BY
ALEXANDRIAN NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
• Copernicus repositioned the sun at the centre of
the universe.

• Orbiting around the sun in circular paths

modified by epicycles, and with its own speed.

• He then introduced the earth’s rotation to its own

axis and so as the other planets.

• Every orbit of the planet to the sun is equivalent

to a year.
There are two kinds of Planetary
Motion:

• One solar orbit

• The planet also
of the planet
rotates 360
Earth takes
degrees on its
around 365 days
axis once every
to complete.
24 hours.
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 https://study.com/learn/lesson/heliocentric-theory-model.html
 https://www.britannica.com/science/Copernican-system
 https://www.britannica.com/science/Copernican-system
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