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__The Historical Ideas of the Earth's Rotation in the Universe__
===For hundreds of years, the Western world thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. This model/view of the universe was called the Ptolemaic view of the universe. This was the widely believed view of the universe for 1400 years in Europe. It was the widely believed system because of the Catholic Church that had endorsed this model. It wasn't until the arrival of Galileo, Copernicus and Newton in the 1600's that this view was changed and made into the Heliocentric model of the universe.===

__Historical Evidence__
===The historical evidence of the Ptolemaic view came from the fact that people thought that if God had created Earth as the center of civilization, why would Earth not be the center of the universe as well? Also, people in the Ancient times and the Middle Ages saw the Sun as rising in the East and setting in the West, and this makes the illusion of everything rotating around the Earth.===

__References__
===Library of Congress. "Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)." __Library of Congress Home__. 10 Dec. 2007. 01 June 2009 []. ===