Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

The film explores the concept of gravitation, tracing its historical understanding from ancient civilizations to modern physics. It discusses how early thinkers like the Egyptians and Greeks perceived ...

DALLASIt's only when the big guns Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler came along that our understanding shifted to a heliocentric model with the sun at the centre of things and the Earth, and the other ...

This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as accepted wisdom at the time (supported by the church) was that Earth was at the centre of the universe. Create your own ...