Discoveries Of Scientists Of The "Age Of Reason"

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scientists which
helped credit the Heliocentric theory. Tycho Brahe was the first, he
played with the idea that the planets all revolved around the sun, but the
sun instead revolved around the Earth(still Geocentric). After Brahe's
death Johannes Kepler took the notes and data that Brahe had taken. Kepler
came up with the idea the it would be even more mathematically plausible
that the orbits of the planets around the sun (Heliocentric) were
elliptical, instead of circular and published the book "On the motion of
Mars"-- the problem was unfortunately that this could not be proved. The
most important of these three scientists was Galileo Galilei, whom looked
out his telescope one night and saw something very dangerous to the church.
He saw the Jupiter had a moon which orbited it. This meant big trouble
because it proved that everything did not revolve around the Earth --
contradicting the church. Galileo was attacked and pressured to deny this
evidence the rest of his ...

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