Explain How Did The Universe Appear To Our Ancestors Before The Invention Of The Telescope

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History had many different historians talk about what point of view can you look at the things. People look at the moon from telescope or the naked eye ,but a few humans can say the look at the moon from a rocketship or from the moon itself. It took mankind many years to figure out ways to understand the area we live in.

Looking at thing from thing from new points of view help people to understand item, Animals, Plants and also humans. “How did the Universe appear to our ancestors before the invention of the telescope? Most people thought the Earth was the center of the Universe. For them, the Earth did not move in the sky and it did not rotate on its axis. Rather, all the planets and stars rotated around the Earth. Historians and scientists call this Earth-centered view of the Universe geocentric (“geo” referring to the Earth and “centric” meaning in the center) and geostatic (“static” meaning unmoving).” It talks about the way people look at their own plant. …show more content…

Well there was a man named Galileo who invented the telescope. “Galileo invented many things, and though he did not invent the telescope, he did, in 1609, devise a telescope that had more power than previous ones. And he was the first person to use the telescope to study the heavens. With it, he saw that the Moon was not smooth, observed sunspots and a supernova, and discovered the four moons of Jupiter. Did these discoveries support, extend, or challenge the geocentric or the heliocentric view of the Universe?” Now you can understand where we began to look at the universe