Galileo Galilei championed the heliocentric model of the solar system and advanced modern astronomy with telescopic ...

And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition ... with the same certainty that we attribute to Copernicus's heliocentric theory or the molecular composition of matter.

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 ... Copernicus' work laid the foundation for modern astronomy.

It was from there that the astronomer made most of his important celestial discoveries and perfected his heliocentric theory that the ... of one of the fathers of modern science.

This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as accepted wisdom at the time (supported by the church) was that Earth was at the centre of the universe. Create your own ...