![]() ![]() ![]() Our understanding of the universe was greatly improved by the Copernican model, which paved the way for the discovery of planets and galaxies. Today, it is considered the most accurate description of the universe. The heliocentric model of the universe has gradually been accepted as a valid model by scientists over the centuries that followed. After changing his mind on the heliocentric model, he was placed under house arrest. Galileo was tried and convicted for heresy by the Inquisition in 1633. The Copernican theory was opposed by the Church, despite Galileo’s telescopic observations supporting it. De Revolutionibus was a heliocentric or sun-centered model of the solar system that was written by a shy and unassuming Polish Cleric in 1543 and published in Nuremberg in the month following his death. ![]()
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