Copernican revolution
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Over a while, it was accepted that the earth was at the center of the universe. The early astronomers feared to challenge the status quo due to the fear of the church terming them as heretics. As the time came by and technology advanced, there was a lot of knowledge of our universe. The Copernican revolution stands to be vital in explaining the universe. The discovery of new galaxies as an extension of the revolution done by Copernicus is discussed in this essay.
The Copernican revolution brought into light that the universe was not geocentric as the Ptolemaic system for long had put forward. It is through the revolution that such astronomers such as Edwin Hubble presented further knowledge on the universe. Hubble and his assistant validated the Einstein proposal that there must be other parts of the universe unexplored. Through their observations, it noted that our own Milky Way was just one of the other thousands of galaxies on the universe.
Subsequently, the same way earth lost its centrality in the universe with Copernicus; Milky Way also lost the central position of the universe with Hubble. The disputing is seen to be a continuation of the revolution that began long ago. It is these inventions that begged more answers to the question of where the universe started. The unknown revelation now remains to be puzzled if there are other universes out there, and our own is just a universe amidst multiverses. For now, it is a question that needs more discoveries.
In summary, the discovery of other galaxies in our universe other than our own Milky Way is an extension of the model that Copernicus presented. As astronomers continue their fantastic explorations on our universe, it is in order to conclude that the inventive prowess of Copernicus explored more framework in the knowledge of the universe.
Bibliography
Alvarez, Walter, and Henrique Leitão. “The neglected early history of geology: The Copernican Revolution as a major advance in understanding the Earth.” Geology, 38, no. 3 (2010): 231-234.
Guthke, Karl S. The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction. Cornell University Press, 2019.