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A New Understanding of the Solar System From at least the time of Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, man believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe In the 15th century, Copernicus brought us closer to the truth, moving the Sun to the center of the universeSchematic of a geocentric solar system Placing the Sun at the center brings a certain symmetry and simplicity to the model of the solar system In Ptolemy's model, Mercury and Venus are special because they revolve around empty points between the Earth and Sun Copernicus has all the planets orbiting the Sun in the same sense
