The Copernican revolution in cosmography (later called вЂњcosmologyвЂќ) had a profound impact on natural philosophy (motions of bodies, the elements, finiteness of the universe), logic, the liberal arts, and the structure of the cosmos. As a result, experts have been trying to reconstruct his path to the heliocentric theory ever since. Copernicus did not explain, however, exactly how he came to the conclusions that the problem lay in geocentrism and the solution in heliocentrism. Relying on Renaissance humanist predecessors and contemporaries, Copernicus expressed deep dissatisfaction with the confusion in astronomy, and he intimated that the artisan who created the universe for our sake also created humans with the capacity to discover and understand the structure of that universe with certainty.

Copernicus cited disagreements among his predecessors over observations, principles, assumptions, explanations, and, even worse, over the order of the planets, the structure of the universe, and the commensurability of its parts. From the time that Ptolemy of Alexandria ( c.В 150 CE) constructed a mathematically competent version of geocentric astronomy to CopernicusвЂ™s mature heliocentric version (1543), experts knew that the Ptolemaic system diverged from the geocentric concentric-sphere conception of Aristotle. Nicolaus Copernicus (b.В 1473вЂ“d.В 1543) was the first modern author to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe.

History of heliocentric astrology