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Copernican Revolution

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Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

Newton's laws of motion

classical formulation of Mechanics by Isaac Newton

Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601

Kepler's laws of planetary motion

scientific laws describing motion of planets around the Sun

geocentric model

thumb|upright=1.35|Figure of the heavenly bodies – An illustration of a Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1687 work by Isaac Newton describing his laws of motion and gravitation

four largest moons of Jupiter

Hans Lippershay

(1571-1619) German-Dutch spectacle-maker

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

book by Copernicus

and yet it moves

phrase attributed to Galileo Galilei on being forced to recant his scientific view

Copernican principle

model in cosmology

Copernican Revolution

Belief, initiated by Copernicus, that planets orbit the sun

Sidereus Nuncius

astronomical treatise of Galileo

English mathematician and astronomer (c.1546–1595)

17th century conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church

Copernican heliocentrism

concept that the Earth rotates around the Sun

Tychonic system

model of the Solar System proposed in 1588 by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe

history of the telescope

aspect of history

Lodovico delle Colombe

Italian philosopher (1565-1616)

David Friesenhausen

Hungarian maskil, rabbi, and astronomer