Who first discovered the earth went round the sun and not the other way around?
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The first person who proposed that the Earth orbited the Sun was Aristarchus, about 300BC, but his writings have been lost. In 1530 Copernicus published his theory that the Earth orbits the Sun. In 1609 Galileo first used a telescope to view Jupiter's moons. In 1630 Galileo published a document upholding the Copernican system but was forced to recant his beliefs by the inquisition in 1633.
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this is going to require some research...but ptolemy actually came up with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun..he was greek...
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One is incorrect and the other is correct.  The heliocentric model (or Copernican model) places the sun as the center of the solar system, with the planets revolving around it, which is correct.  \n\nThe geocentric model place the earth as the center of the solar system, with the planets and the sun rotating around it.  This is incorrect.  \n\nIn the 17th Century, the astronomer Galileo was branded a heretic and excommunicated from the Church for "daring" to challenge the Vatican's misguided belief (derived from a literal reading of the Bible) that the geocentric model was correct.  Science ultimately vindicated Galileo as correct, and the Church only issued a formal retraction of the excommunication of Galileo in this century.
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No one, not even the church believed the earth was flat when Columbus sailed. The major point of contention was just how big around it was. The biggest theologian in the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas believed in the spherical earth and died 218 years before Columbus sailed. Further, Dante's Divine Comedy, written between 1308 and 1321, more than a hundred years before Columbus sailed, describes a round earth. Finally, Bertold von Regensburg referred to the round earth in a sermon in the vernacular, letting us know that it was common knowledge even among the uneducated that the earth is round.
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no one can prove the sun revolves around the earth because the sun doesn't orbit the earth.  the following link may help. http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/barycntr.shtml
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God made the earth and other planets round. I learn.
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Prooving that the earth is not the center of the universe and that it rotates around the sun. Thoe simple as it seems today, this fact sparked the fire for future generations of wonderers to explore and ask question that were forebidin a few centuries ago.
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In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from the Greek (Helios = "Sun" and kentron = "Center"). Historically, heliocentrism is opposed to geocentrism and currently to modern geocentrism, which places the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but extremely important relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion.
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It was Thales of Miletus, 635 BC - 543 BC who first described it. Ben Franklin missed this discover by over 2000 years.
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he prove that the earth is revolving around te sun not sun revolvong around the earth...so this went against the church in the middle ages.. so he was exucted.  he used telescope to see the planets and moons that revolve around the sun and then..  he prove theat the sun revolv aund the sun..
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The earth's shape is not define.But , Aryabhatta tells that the earth is round.
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"no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.” - Hutton\n\nHutton was the FIRST to realize (or to be credited w/ realizing) that geologic cycles were going on w/in & on the earth.\n\nHe noticed all the geologic processes that went on from day to day, year to year, etc. & wondered how long they have been going on. He was the first to notice what we now call the rock cycle.\n\nHe stated that the earth was much older than the 6000 years that the Church believed to be true. He believed it had to be for all the length of time that it took processes to occur in the present.\n\nHe is most notable for his Principle of Uniformitarianism (which rose out of some of the observations listed above) which states that the geologic processes that have gone on in the past still go on today & at the same rates.
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When I teach this subject my answer is always three fold.  FIRST-ancient peoples crossed over the land bridge between Asia and North America.  \n\nSECOND-Leif Erikson was the first known European to discover America\n\nTHRID- Columbus "rediscovered" America at a time when the knowledge caught hold and became widely known. \n\nMy personal belief is that many people discovered it independantly of others and thus were the true "first discoverer" at least in their own minds eye (and tribes or ships).
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It is commonly assumed that people from early antiquity generally believed the world was flat, but by the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) its spherical shape was generally acknowledged. At that time Ptolemy derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude and longitude (see clime). His writings remained the basis of European astronomy throughout the Middle Ages.
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Albert Einstein.\n1. In 29 march 1919 was a total eclipse of the Sun. The Royal Astronomical Society sent two expeditions one in Brazil and the other in Guinea to check the German scientist Albert Einstein theory, that the light of the stars is deviated by the Sun gravitational field. The results show a deviation of 1,75 seconds of arc, when Albert Einstein calculated a deviation of 1,70 seconds of arc. After 33 years in 1952 when they used a better equipment the results matched Albert Einstein`s calculation.\n2. Albert Einstein convinced the President of the United States  F.D.Rooswelt, about the emergency  of developing the A-bomb because the German scientist had the means and the material to make one before the Americans.
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Anaxagoras.\n\n\nPythagoras first reasoned that the Moon must be a sphere because the line between light and dark is curved.\n\nAnaxagoras used the Earth shadow during eclipse to confirm the Earth is a sphere.\n\nAnd Aristotle came to the same conclusion because he noted how the constellations "move" when you get farther from the equator.
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Before the birth of Christ there was records supporting the theory. The early Greeks and Romans wrote about the shape of earth. Like so much of the early learning's the words were ignored, misplaced, and ridiculed until the 1400's at which time early seaman of that century wrote about the earth being round and map makers drew it that way.