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

In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...

The film discusses the law of universal gravitation, primarily based on Sir Isaac Newton's work. It explains how gravity acts as a force that attracts objects towards each other, using a fictional ...

In his book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Copernicus introduces his Heliocentric model for the Universe which upended more than a millennia of Geocentric hegemony. In this work ...

Geocentric models resorted to convoluted orbits ... Despite the repeated proposal of a heliocentric solar system over the millennia by scholars as respected as Leonardo da Vinci, heliocentrism ...

Geocentric model of the solar system which ... otherwise known as a heliocentric model. Little did he know his ideas were about to change the world. Copernicus would spend the rest of his life ...

Set in 15th century Europe, where the "geocentric theory" was considered the ultimate truth and researching or even believing in anything that contradicted it was a grave crime, the story follows ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...