Many of the diagrams Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) put in his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) supported the heliocentric model by demonstrating the movements of other planets. Galileo observed ...

Moreover, Copernicus's heliocentric model provided the impetus for the ... Let me add a bit of detail to the explanation and to the diagrams that Weinberg gives there. Copernicus's system did ...