ABSTRACT
Philosophers in ancient Greece contributed in the development of ideas about the Earth and the heavens. Aristotle proposed different laws to work for the Earth and the heavens and tried to establish logically the workings of terrestrial and celestial mechanics. Later on, as the Catholic Church gained power, Aristotle’s ideas were declared to be infallible and any contradiction was supposed to be anti-Bible. From the time of the Renaissance, systematic scientific ideas started developing through Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo. After a long-drawn struggle, finally through Newton, the modern science took shape. The ideas of these great thinkers have been discussed in details following chronologically the development of scientific ideas.
