Question

what was the wrong concept about solar system before Renaissance period? explain the change happened to this concept during the Renaissance period ​

Answer 1

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The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.

Answer 2

The wrong concept about solar system before Renaissance period was that the previous system, the Ptolemaic system, was geocentric (with the Earth at the center of the universe).

• In the Ptolemaic system each planet circles uniformly along a circular path (epicycle), the center of which circles around Earth along a greater circular path.
• Under the geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all circle around the Earth.

The change happened to this concept during the Renaissance period was one of the major scientific discoveries originated from Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. In the 1530s, he published his model of a heliocentric solar system.

• This places the sun, not the Earth, at the center of the solar system. It was a major innovation in the history of science.
• The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution established what was, perhaps, the most noteworthy period of discovery and growth of the sciences in the entire of history.
• This period headed the Enlightenment.

The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution were accountable for the introduction of ideas such as a heliocentric solar system and laws of planetary movements.

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