Sunspot appearances are recorded throughout history, dating back to Theopharastus, a pupil of Aristotle, in the fourth century B.C. ... Perhaps he knew that the world would not warmly receive a report proving that Sun was constantly changing, contrary to the Aristotle's teachings. ...
Galileo was one of the most significant contributors to the scientific revolution. Galileo recognized that there were many theoretical problems when it came to physical science. In fact, Galileo's interpretations were so contrary to popular theories that he was sometimes laughed at and disrespected ...
During Galileo's time and the centuries before it, Aristotelian astronomy, that everything revolved around the Earth, was generally accepted, until Galileo began to invent and experiment with the telescope thus proving the renowned Catholic astronomer Aristotle wrong. ...
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs, which put forth his revolutionary idea that the Sun was at the center of the universe, opposing the popularly accepted understanding of the geocentric universe embodied by the natural philosophy of Aristotle, the astronomy of Ptolemy and the teachings of the Church that the stationary Earth had the sun and stars revolving around it. ...
