London: Google is celebrating the 540th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, a Renaissance scholar, physician, mathematician and astronomer, with an animated heliocentric model doodle.
Born on February 19, 1473, in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Kingdom of Poland, is responsible for giving the world the heliocentric theory, which gives us the present model of the Solar System with the sun at the centre.
Before the era of Copernicus, it was believed that the Earth is situated at the centre of the Solar System with the other planets and stars orbiting around it. The belief was based on Ptolemy’s Almagest circa 150 CE. Copernicus challenged the belief and in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) gave the world the present system.
Despite the theory being the only theory existing today and on which most astronomical calculations are based, Copernicus’ theory was initially slow to catch on. European beliefs still stuck by Ptolemy’s preaching and it was only at a later date that Copernicus gained the recognition he deserved.
Today’s Doodle shows the Solar System with the Sun at the epicentre and other planets (which were discovered at that time) orbiting around the Sun.
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