How our ideas of the Solar system and universe have changed?
1) A part of the answer to this question can be found in the Bible. Just have a look a the book of Genesis 1 to see how some people imagined the solar system and the universe about 3400 years ago. Compare this to what you learn at school. Further information: http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Genesis+1&qs_version=NIV The greatest changes happened after the invention of the telescope. 2) “For many thousands of years, humanity, with a few notable exceptions, did not recognise the existence of the Solar System. They believed the Earth to be stationary at the centre of the universe and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects that moved through the sky. Although the Indian mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata and the Greek philosopher Aristarchus of Samos had speculated on a heliocentric reordering of the cosmos,[1] Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to develop a mathematically predictive heliocentric system. His 17th-century successors Galileo Galilei, J
