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What led scientists during the Scientific Revolution to question the view of Ptolemy that the Earth is the center of the universe ?

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What led scientists during the Scientific Revolution to question the view of Ptolemy that the Earth is the center of the universe:

The raise of scientific thinking led to question traditional opinios. The idea of observation, experimentation and reasoning was what led to question the idea of the world as the center of the universe.

Copernicu's thesis contradicted the the theory of Ptolemy and stated that the universe was sun centered, his theory was heliocentric theory.

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Ptolemy thought the Earth was the center of the universe, his view was according to the Churches believes. With scientific revolution science depended on observation and experimentation, not what the churche or traditions said.

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The findings of Copernicus caused a paradigm shift that contested the model proposed by Ptolomeo.

Contrary to viewing the Earth as the centre of the cosmos, Copernicus proposed that the Earth was not a passive but an active sphere that orbited around the Sun. His model was named heliocentric.

The paradigm shift caused a Scientific Revolution as he published in 1543 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).

The model underwent criticism since the Catholic church was unwilling to accept this. With time, the onset of a Scientific Revolution would lessen the power of the church and prompt for development of science in post-medieval Europe.

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