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| Renaissance
Astronomy - 15th
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| Copernicus
was around between 1473 and 1543, and he completely transformed
the way scientists saw the universe. He was very influenced
by Christianity, and came to believe that the Sun was a material
copy of God - a giver of light and warmth. This made his revolutionary
proposition that the Sun was at the centre of the universe much
more palatable for his contemporaries.
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Tycho Brahe,
on the other hand - who lived from 1546 till 1601 - thought
that the Sun Moon and stars revolved around the Earth. His model
was mathematically equivalent to Copernicus', but conveniently
it didn't violate scripture or 'common sense.' Although he turned
out to be wrong, Brahe was one of the best observational astronomers
who ever lived. Without using a telescope, he managed to measure
he positions of the planets to within a few arc minutes. |
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