THE COPERNICAN

REVOLUTION

By: Charles Matthew B. Barde

BSIT 2A
Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473 – 1543)
also known as Nikolai kopernik
he embodied the phrase renaissance man
he is a cleric, mathematician, translator, physician,
jurist, diplomat and warrior.
• Copernicus give us ideas in which the sun to appear to travel east to west each day and
why the planets track eastward in the zodiac.
• He reasoned that the earth might caused spinning because of the suns flight and why the
sun seemed to travel across the zodiac.
• Later on he was reluctant to publicize his ideas because of the church denounce that
conflicted with its doctrine is a heresy a sin or crime.
• Copernicus have no clue on how inquisitors treat him and his theories and he keep it
until he was 70 years old.
• His book entitled Book on the revolutions of the celestial spheres and it was not printed
until 1543
• He introduces the Geocentric Ptolemaic System.
Geocentric Ptolemaic
System
the earth is at the center
the sun stars and planets on their spheres place
around earth it causes daily movement
it is the accepted model for 1400 years

Heliocentric Copernican System

the sun is at the center
the stars and planets is fixed stars don’t move
it is uniform and it has a circular motion
the motion of the stars results from earths spin
The Seven Points of the Copernican
System
• The celestial spheres doesn’t have a common center Earth is not the center of
everything
• Planet earth is not the center of the universe it is the only center of the lunar orbit and
gravity
• All the spheres orbit the sun
• Earth to sun distance is almost non existent the stars are too much far away than the sun
• The motion of the stars is due to the earth rotating on its axis
• The motion of the sun is the result of the earths motions rotation and revolution
• The apparent retrograde motion of the planets is caused by the motion of the earth from
which one observes.