Tychonic system
Sistema tychónico
- Date
- 1588 · confidence high
- Place
- Uraniborg, Hven Island, Denmark (now Sweden)
- Credited to
- Tycho Brahe
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Geo-heliocentric cosmological model published by Tycho Brahe in 1588, in which the Earth remains at the centre of the universe while the Sun and Moon orbit it and the other planets orbit the Sun.
What it led to
- The pre-Keplerian debate between geocentric, heliocentric and geo-heliocentric systems
- Johannes Kepler's use of Tycho's observational data
- Independent geo-heliocentric models in India (Nilakantha Somayaji)