The Geocentric theory explains that in the solar system the Earth is the center of everything & that everything revolves around it. Back in the day , many Philosophers that were Greeks & Chinese was popular with the idea. They also though that the sun, stars, planets made a perfect circles around the Earth.
The Heliocentric explanation of the solar system is that the Sun is the center of the universe & that the planets revolve it. The way the planets circle the Sun is in an elliptical shape. This theory was mathematically proved by Nicoluas Copernicus. Heliocentric is the correct explanation of our solar system , it was also developed by the Scientific Revolution. Many religious people like the Catholics in the church were against the theory because they believed in the other theory. Today in life the theory is accepted in almost everywhere.
The Catholic church didn't believe that the Earth was in the center of the Universe. This is why Galileo went to trail. Galileo was an astronomer , philosopher & mathematician and also was one of the people who helped in the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was punished but not put to death , he was tortured in jail.
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