Our solar system is based on the theory that all planets rotate around the sun.

This is a concept
that has a lot of philosophical evidence behind it, therefore scientists have come to the
conclusion that all planets orbit around the sun in an eclipse pattern.
In the early 1500s Nicolaus Copernicus developed the first heliocentric model of the solar
system. Heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is the centre of our solar system, with the planets
orbiting around it in an eclipse pattern. The geocentric theory is that Earth is the centre of the
universe and that all planets, including the sun, circled around it. Copernicus created a
heliocentric model of the solar system from what he had observed and what he thought to be the
true way that planets moved. It was designed in a way so different from Aristotles geocentric
theory of planet movement that nobody believed him. At the time, Aristotles concept of the solar
system seemed to make sense to everyone. It was the theory that planets orbited around the Earth
in a circular pattern and generated such little wind that we couldnt feel the Earth moving. It is
now proved that none of this is in fact true, but at the time it made sense mathematically.
Galileo Galilei, a famous Renaissance physicist, was the first ever person to observe the solar
system though a telescope. The telescope had first been invented many years before, but Galileo
created a telescope that could focus on tiny stars and planets so that he could research the planets
further. This was one of the major inventions that contributed to the discovery of the heliocentric
solar system. Galileos telescope helped him in observing the smaller details of the planets and
their movement. One night when looking at the Moon, Galileo realised, contrary to what
everyone thought, the Moon was actually a rough surface full of little crevices and bumps rather
than a smooth and shiny shell. Galileos telescope did have its flaws. Although it had a much
larger lens-piece than other telescopes at the time, it did have a very narrow view of field that
could only show a small portion of the solar system without him having to reposition it. For
many years he recorded the movements of the planets, trying to work out how exactly it was that
the planets moved. Galileo agreed with Nicolaus Copernicus on his theory that the Earth, along
with all other plants, rotated on an axis around the sun. He soon published a book comparing
Aristotles theory to what he and Copernicus believed. Galileo was then accused of heresy and
punished. His book had in it information that went against everything that everyone believed at
the time. Galileo admitted to agreeing with the Copernican theory and was imprisoned. Although
Galileo changed the way that the people saw the solar system, and the way that it was
discovered, the way in which he had gone the discovery was, in a way, illegal at the time.