COPERNICUS AND GALILEO

Geocentric or The Earth centered model any theory of the structure of the solar
system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the centre of it all.Under the
geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth.The geocentric model was
the predominant description of the cosmos in many ancient civilizations, such as those of
Aristotle in Classical Greece and Ptolemy in Roman Egypt.In time, we also began to understand
that the Earth was indeed round, and came up with rationalized explanations for the behavior of
other celestial bodies. And by classical antiquity, scientists had formulated ideas on how the
motion of the planets occurred, and how all the heavenly orbs fit together. This gave rise to the
Geocentric model of the universe, a now-defunct model that explained how the Sun, Moon, and
firmament circled around our planet.
Heliocentric or The sun centered model The notion that the Earth was the center
of the Universe is certainly an understandable one. To ancient people, looking up at the skies, it
seemed evident that the Sun, the Moon and the stars rotated around the Earth once a day. For
the Earth-bound observer, the ground that they stood on seemed like a fixed point of reference,
a flat plane from which to watch the circling cosmos and over time, thanks to centuries of
record-keeping by various civilizations from ancient Babylonian and Egyptian astronomers to
contemporary Mediterranean ones a formalized system began to emerge that put the Earth at
the center of all things.