This film shows how Nicolaus Copernicus; an early astronomer ... This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial, as accepted wisdom at the time (supported by the church ...

DALLASIt's only when the big guns Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler came along that our understanding shifted to a heliocentric model with the sun at the centre of things and the Earth, and the other ...

In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric ...