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Name of Scientist Planetary Model What Was Correct With The Model? What Was Wrong With The Model?
Name of Scientist Planetary Model What Was Correct With The Model? What Was Wrong With The Model?
Aristotle Stationary Earth The Earth is spherical. The universe revolves around the
Earth.
Johhanes Kepler Kepler’s laws of planetary The sun is at the center of the solar The cosmos is in the shape of a
motion system, and each planet has its own complete circle.
orbit.
Galileo Galilei Galileo’s law of planetary Jupiter has four moons in its orbit. Galileo deduced that the stars were
motion in fact Jupiter's moons in orbit.
Tycho Brahe Brahe’s model of the cosmos The sun was orbited by all of the The earth was orbited by the sun
planets. and moon.