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Why Do People Start To Believe The Heliocentric Model

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I think the reason why people started to believe the heliocentric model was that Kepler made a choice to trust the data over his preconceived beliefs, the same beliefs as most people during this time. Using mathematics, Kepler was able to share his new model of planetary motion, with three key features; it is known as Kepler’s law of planetary motion. This law predicted planetary motion and was enough for people to start to believe the heliocentric model. Then when Galileo was able to answer all three objections, which were rooted back to 2000 year old beliefs by Aristotle and other ancient Greeks, he was able to give the people what they needed to truly believe the heliocentric model. One way Galileo was able to show the people was showing
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