COPERNICAN

HELIOCENTRISM
 NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated
a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the
center of the universe.

He wrote a book entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the

Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). It is the seminal work on
the heliocentric theory. This book offered an alternative model of the
universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted
since ancient times.
HELIOCENTRIC SYSTEM
 The word “helious” in Greek mean “Sun”

 A Heliocentric system is one in which the planets revolved around a

fixed 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.
GEOCENTRIC HELIOCENTRIC
CONTRIBUTION IN THE MODERN
WORLD

 The Copernican Heliocentric formed a strong foundation for future

scientists to build on and improve mankind's understanding of the
motion of heavenly bodies.

 Other astronomers built on Copernicus' work and proved that our

planet is just one world orbiting one star in a vast cosmos loaded with
both, and that we're far from the center of anything.
ARE NICOLAUS COPERNICUS'S
ACHIEVEMENTS STILL FELT TODAY?
• Nicolaus Copernicus is heavily cited as the father of modern astronomy and is the
reason why we know this much about space now. Although he wasn't the one to
persuade other scientists about the heliocentric theory, he was the one to start it
all, the one who would set the scientific world up for nearly six hundred years later
in the future.