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Name: Ptolemy
Name of the model: Geocentric model
Information: It was made to show that
Earth is at the centre of the universe,
and that the sun and planets orbit in a
series as well.
Evidence: Its evidence was the Sun,
Moon, Planets and stars could be seen
moving around the Earth.
Diagram:
Models of the Solar System
Name: Copernicus
Name of the model: Heliocentric
Model
Information: It was made to show
where all the planets, moons, and
others were placed in the universe.
Evidence: Its evidence was by
referencing or getting ideas from
Ptolemy’s model.
Diagram:
Name: Tycho Brahe
Name of the model: Sun revolving
around the Earth, and planets
orbiting the sun.
Information: This model was made
to show how the sun revolves
around the Earth, and planets orbit
the sun.
Evidence: His studies of Copernicus’s
model.
Diagram:
 Models of the Solar System

Name: Kepler Name: Galileo

Supported which model? Sun revolving around the Earth, Supported which model? Heliocentric model
and planets orbiting the sun.
Information: This shows that objects can orbit around other
Information: Kepler developed his theories and said, the objects. If the moon orbits around other planets, then
orbit of every planet is a part of the ellipse with the Sun maybe Earth isn’t geocentric at all.
at one of the two focus. A line connecting with a planet
Evidence: That if objects can orbit around other objects then
and the Sun wipes out identical areas during identical
the Earth may not be geocentric at all.
interlude of time .The area of the orbital period of a
planet is a straight way proportional to the cube of the
semi-major axis of its orbit.

Evidence: The orbit is indeed an ellipse of the

gravitational force is Inverse Square. Diagram:
Diagram: