Geocentrism But still today 25% of American believe in

Geocentrism and they think that sun is

moving.

Image of Claudius Ptolemy

Ptolemy, a great ancient greek
astronomer the founder of Geocentrism
Geocentrism is the belief that the
Diagram of Geocentrism
Earth is located at the centre of the
Universe. In the diagram, it shown that Earth
located at the centre while Moon, Mercury,
Geocentrists accept that the earth is
Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn is
round and not flat. Before the 16th century
circling around the earth.
most people believed in the theory of
geocentrism. People in this century believe
Geocentrism because there was no
From Earth, it looks like the Sun
mathematical model can prove the belief
and stars are moving across the sky.
was wrong.
So people belief that Earth is the
The mathematical model of
centre of planet and even sun is moving
Heliocentrism was then present before 16th
around the earth.
century in by the Renaissance
This belief is called Geocentrism mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic
before the belief of Heliocentrism found cleric Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the
by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler from Copernican Revolution.
15th to 17th century.
Geocentrism is a totally wrong in
Believing in Geocentrism had been every way because it cannot explain the
proved to be wrong because sun is the one rotation happen in the universe right now
not moving while earth and the other and it might cause miscalculation.
planet are moving around the sun.
How was the geocentric model
disproved ?
Heliocentric model was used after
the Geocentric model because it is more
accurate compared to the old model.
The earliest model of
Heliocentrism was released by an
astronomer called Nicolaus Copernicus
and it could remove Ptolemy's epicycles
because the retrograde motion could be
seen to be the result of the combination of
Ptolemy's model in his Doubts on Ptolemy.
But it was a critique more toward
Ptolemaic model rather than geocentrism.
How did Galileo detect
Geocentrism to be a false belief by his
own observation ?
In his observation, Galileo saw a
star near the planet Jupiter.
Then Galileo realise that what he

Earth and planet movement and speeds. called ‘star’ is actually going around the
Jupiter.

The observation bring a huge news

Ptolemy’s system and Geocentrism
to the astronomers and it proved that the
according to the Islamic astronomers.
situation do not obey Geocentrism.
In the early stage, Islamic
This news bring to the new level of
astronomers accept the believe of
argument and Geocentrism cannot be use
Ptolemaic system and Geocentrism can
anymore because it might lead to the
also be trusted.
wrong argument.
The problem occur in 10th century
when the scholars start questioning about
the earth immobility, centrality and the
rotation of earth.

Then one brilliant astronomer

called Abu Sa'id al-Sijzi believed that the
Eath rotate at its own axis and that was
acceptable thinking and can be proven in
many ways.

In the beginning of 11th century

Alhazen wrote scathing critique of