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Describe the effects of Renaissance in Astronomy

Answer 1

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During the renaissance period, astronomy began to undergo a revolution in thought known as the Copernican Revolution, which gets the name from the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who proposed a heliocentric system, in which the planets revolved around the Sun and not the Earth

Answer 2

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During the Renaissance people began once again to explore and experiment with the world around them. One area of science which made great leaps during this time was astronomy. Astronomy is the study of celestial bodies in outer space such as the Moon, the planets, and the stars.

For almost 2000 years the people of Europe had relied on the discoveries of the Ancient Greeks. Greek scientists such as Aristotle and Ptolemy had produced theories that the Earth was the center of the Universe. They said that the sun and the planets orbited around the Earth. People considered this as a fact for all that time.

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