Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science

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 * < **Tycho Brahe's Celestial Globe** ||< **Heliocentric System** ||
 * < [[image:brahes_globe.jpg width="355" height="485"]]
 * < This picture is Tycho Brahe's Celestial Globe. Tycho Brahe was a astronomer that was brilliant. His ideas on the universe were very popular during the Renaissance. ||< This colorful engraving made by Nicholas Copernicus is from the 17th century and it shows the sun as the center of the universe, not the Earth. For about 1,400 years, people thought the Earth was the center of the universe. They also believed that the sun and all the other planets revolved around the Earth. In the 16th century, Nicholas Copernicus had a different theory, he believed that the sun remained still in the center of the universe while all the planets revolved around it. This new theory was named the heliocentric system. ||