NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (POLISH ASTRONOMER): *BORN ON FEB'19TH,1473.
* KNOWN AS FATHER OF MODERN ASTRONOMY .
*HE PROPOSED THAT EARTH AND THE OTHER PLANETS REVOLVE AROUND THE SUN ( i.e.HELIOCENTRIC THEORY).
GEOCENTRIC THEORY
PTOLEMY
*HIS THEORY DISPROVED THE THEORY OF PTOLEMY, WHO SAID THAT ALL THE PLANETS AND SUN REVOLVE AROUND EARTH (i.e. GEOCENTRIC THEORY).
GALILEO'S MOONS
TYCHO BRAHE
GALILEO GALILEI
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*THE COPERNICIAN THEORY WAS NOT ACCEPTED BY SOME ASTRONOMERS LIKE TYCHO BRAHE ( A DANISH ASTRONOMER), BUT HIS IDEA WAS PROVED BY GALILEO'S WORKS ON JUPITER'S MOONS (IO,CALLISTO,GANYMEDE AND EUROPA) WHICH ORBITS JUPITER AND KEPLER'S WORKS ON ELLIPTICAL ORBIT.
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