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Ptolemaic model In the second century CE, Ptolemy, who lived in the Egyptian town of Alexandria, produced a mathematical representation based on observation of the known Solar System. In Ptolemy’s model, the Earth was at the centre of the Universe, with the Sun and planets revolving in a series of circular orbits moving out from the Earth. This model became known as the ‘geocentric’ model.

Copernican model Nicolas Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Polish scholar who reconstructed Ptolemy’s model of the Universe. Over the 1200 years since Ptolemy’s model was put forward, it had been developed into a complex and cumbersome mathematical system. Copernicus was able to simplify it by switching from an Earth-centred model to a Sun-centred one. The Roman Catholic Church, whose teachings held firmly to the Ptolemaic model, rejected his ‘heliocentric’ ideas. Copernicus’s work was banned and remained out of favour until 1822.

Tycho Brahe The Dane Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was born 3 years after the death of Copernicus. He studied mathematics and astronomy in German and Swiss universities and came to the conclusion that the Copernican model defied God’s word as written in the scriptures. He proposed a model with the Sun revolving around the Earth and the planets orbiting the Sun. Tycho Brahe observed the motions of stars and planets and recorded their movements. He had an island observatory equipped with the best available instruments of the time (minus the telescope since it had not been invented). Years of careful observation allowed him to catalogue, with an exceptionally high degree of accuracy, the positions of stars and the movement of the visible planets. In 1572, he observed the appearance of a very bright new star. This was controversial because the belief of the time was that the stars were fixed. Tycho had observed a supernova, now named SN 1572.

Kepler – laws of planetary motion Shortly before his death, Tycho Brahe appointed as his assistant a young German, Johann Kepler (1571–1630). Kepler took over Brahe’s records and edited and extended them with his own observations. Kepler, who was a follower of the Copernican model, realised the orbits of the planets could be elliptical rather than circular. Using Brahe’s data on the movement of Mars, Kepler developed his laws of planetary motion. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time. The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. These laws added considerable weight to the acceptance of the heliocentric model of the Universe.

Galileo discovers Jupiter’s moons Galileo (1564–1642) lived at the same time as Kepler but they were not in regular communication. Using the newly discovered telescope, Galileo discovered that Jupiter had four moons. At first, he thought they were stars, but he noticed that, each night, the four points of light appeared to change positions slightly. Galileo’s discovery of four of Jupiter’s moons was evidence that objects can orbit around other objects. He argued that if moons orbit around other planets, then perhaps the Earth is not the centre of all motion of the stars and planets. Galileo stated that the Earth and the planets must all orbit around the Sun (heliocentric). “1500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the centre of the Universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat… Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” – Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in the movie Men in Black.

Newton and gravity Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was born in the same year that Galileo died. His studies of the motion of objects on Earth and of natural satellites in the night sky resulted in three laws of motion and a law of universal gravitation. He linked universal gravitation to Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. This monumental discovery meant that the heliocentric model of the solar system was finally accepted by the scientific community. The journey from the geocentric to the heliocentric model was a long and tortuous one. It was the collection of empirical evidence along with mathematical applications in conjunction with insightful deep-thinking minds that finally replaced the geocentric model with the heliocentric one.