Reaching for the Stars

The life and work of Copernicus, Tycho, Galileo and Kepler

Galileo faces charges of heresy

In previous articles of this series we talked about the geocentric universe, one that had the Earth at its centre, and how this concept dominated scientific thinking for seventeen centuries. It would take the brilliant mind of Nicolaus Copernicus to upset Aristotle’s and Ptolemy’s geocentric universe.