The Men Who Proposed The Universe
Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences, dating back to antiquity.
Handed down through the centuries in different languages, cultures, and religions, the chronicle of ‘How the universe began’ is as old as time. When early humans began to observe stars move across the sky, they started to wonder about their place in the universe. This revelation eventually gave birth to numerous models of the universe, like The universe of Ancient Greece, The Renaissance universe, The Newtonian universe, so on, and so forth. Although they were divergent, each hypothesis was an outcome of the same fundamental elements of the human psyche- curiosity.
The route astronomy took in the Western world was through Aristotle and Ptolemy’s Geocentric ideas. Geocentrism emerged as a consequence of logic, observations, and mathematical reasoning. Devised by Claudius Ptolemy, a mathematician, and astronomer, the model placed Earth at the center of the universe.
This model was supported by two predominant observations:
First, was the revolution of the Sun around the Earth, that could be noted daily from any point on…
