About 400 years ago, the majority of the sages decided that the Copernican view of the solar system was incorrect and only Galileo believed it correct.

However, Copernican views were not widespread or wholly accepted in China during this time.

(The Vatican condemned Galileo in June 1633, and this was the only known occasion on which Torricelli openly declared himself to hold the Copernican view.)

Naturally, his dispute with the Roman Catholic Church over his support for the Copernican view that the earth revolves around the sun is a central episode.

According to the Copernican view, the earth is not stationary at the centre of the universe but orbits the sun along with the planets.

Proving that not everything orbits Earth, he promotes the Copernican view of a Sun-centered universe.

The rise of the Copernican view of the world led to the resurgence of the Platonic idea that like objects attract but in the context of heavenly bodies.

It is known as the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican view that we still accept today.

Although he primarily taught the traditional geocentric Ptolemaic view of the solar system, Maestlin was also one of the first to accept and teach the heliocentric Copernican view.

Galileo Galilei died after years of house arrest for actually daring to popularise the Copernican view of the Earth orbiting the Sun.