The heliocentric model is based on two theories: (1) that the daily rotation of the heavens is only apparent, and is in fact produced by the rotation of the Earth, and (2) that the Earth is only one of the planets, and is orbiting the Sun like the others. Introduced in modern times by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 [1], the heliocentric model gradually prevailed through the work of Johannes Kepler [8], Galileo Galilei [4], Isaac Newton [10] and Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1796) [9] against the geocentr…