<P> Historically , the center of the Universe had been believed to be a number of locations . Many mythological cosmologies included an axis mundi , the central axis of a flat Earth that connects the Earth , heavens , and other realms together . In the 4th century BCE Greece , the geocentric model was developed based on astronomical observation , proposing that the center of the Universe lies at the center of a spherical , stationary Earth , around which the sun , moon , planets , and stars rotate . With the development of the heliocentric model by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century , the sun was believed to be the center of the Universe , with the planets ( including Earth ) and stars orbiting it . </P>
<P> Historically , the center of the Universe had been believed to be a number of locations . Many mythological cosmologies included an axis mundi , the central axis of a flat Earth that connects the Earth , heavens , and other realms together . In the 4th century BCE Greece , the geocentric model was developed based on astronomical observation , proposing that the center of the Universe lies at the center of a spherical , stationary Earth , around which the sun , moon , planets , and stars rotate . With the development of the heliocentric model by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century , the sun was believed to be the center of the Universe , with the planets ( including Earth ) and stars orbiting it . </P>
who thought the sun was the center of the solar system
who thought the sun was the center of the solar system
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus