Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to come up with the theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe. He figured out that the sun was the center of the universe. He thought that the planets moved in a circle around the sun. Not far behind was a name that we all should know, Galileo. Galileo was told by the church to stop his research of this topic or else...(BUMBUMBUM!!!!) Guess what? Galileo didn't stop even after what the church did. Galileo was later arrested by the church and was charged with heresies (Going against the churches beliefs). The was put under house arrest due to his age and health. We also have Kepler. He discovered that the planets moved in an oval around the sun instead of what Copernicus thought. The knowledge of knowing the sun was the center of orbit, not the Earth, made the church very mad because it went against what they believed. So it made a lot of people get imprisoned. They eventually learned that they were proven wrong and the world had finally discovered a key fact about our universe.
-Scotty
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