Center of the Universe

For the longest time people believed that the earth had to be the center of the Universe and that all the stars, the moon, and the sun revolved around the earth. This is what I call a self centered problem, first the world is flat and then the center of the universe, seems like we have to feel like we are important.

There is a man who's name was Copernicus, he is the man who helped us move away from this problem of not understanding where the earth is placed in reference to the rest of the Galaxy. Copernicus had studied the work of astronomers in the past and from these things he posed the theory that the earth was not what everything revolved around. He believed that the sun was the center and that the earth and all of the other planets revolved around the sun. 


It turns out he was correct. Copernicus was not a man though that wanted to shake up the system if he was not absolutely sure he was correct. He could have published his finding early on in his career but he didn't want to be proven wrong. Copernicus was a scientist who went more of the traditional root that we think of for science today he went to university and studied about arithmetic, geometry, geometric optics, cosmography, and  theoretical and computational astronomy.


Copernicus's theory was called Heliocentrism. According to Heliocentrism the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe. Through study Copernicus was able to learn from past experts in his field and expound and add to the theories that were being developed.