For many thousands of years, humanity, with a few notable exceptions, did not recognize the existence of the Solar System. People believed the Earth to be stationary at the center of the and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects that moved through the sky.
Although the Greek philosopher had speculated on a heliocentric reordering of the cosmos was the first to develop a mathematically predictive heliocentric system.
His 17th-century successors, an, developed an understanding of which led to the gradual acceptance of the idea that the Earth moves around the Sun and that the planets are governed by the same physical laws that governed the Earth.
In more recent times, improvements in the telescope and the use of have enabled the investigation of geological phenomena such as and and seasonal meteorological phenomena such as and on the other planets.
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