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Instruction: Present the 3 different models of the Universe (Geocentric, Heliocentric,

Tychonian Model) of the universe and you need to compare and contrast the 3 models.
Write your answer in a whole sheet of bond paper.
Compare and Contrast 3 Different Models of the Universe
Geocentric Heliocentric Tychonian
Contrast common way to motion of the Both the Earth-
ecplain how universe heavenly bodies is centered Ptolemaic
was put together constant, circular, or system and the Sun-
made up of many centered Copernican
earth is in the circles. system have parts of
middles of universe it.
and everything else Sun is middle of
revolves around it everything The Sun was the
center of the solar
path of sky always at Mercury, Venus, system, and
the same area Earth, Moon, Mars, everything else
Jupiter, and Saturn moved around it.
sky always seems to all move in their own
rise in east and set in orbits around the The sun and moon
west Sun, while the stars move around the
stay in the same earth, and the other
earth is always still or place in the sky. planets move around
doesn’t move the sun. The earth is
Earth moves in three still and at the center
these things move ways of the solar system.
around the earth in
circles Planets move The Earth is in the
backward middle of the circle of
fixed stars, and the
Distance between Sun goes around the
Earth and Sun is not fixed Earth once a
as far as distanvce year.
between Earth and
Stars The Sun is at the
center, and the
planets move around
it.
Comparison all are subject of human curiosity

theories about rotation of planets

models of universe

they have consecutive arrangements in the universe, including the


solar system
Source/s:
https://www.birdvilleschools.net/cms/lib2/TX01000797/Centricity/Domain/4490/
Heliocentric%20Vs%20Geocentric.pdf

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