Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) would bring us from a geocentric universe to the heliocentric one, offering a very familiar, if incomplete, picture of our solar system.

Diagram of key parts of our solar system (via Wikimedia Commons) This final image gives you an idea of how close we are to our nearest neighbors. In short, it is a diagram of the Sun's neighborhood.

The Solar System "family portrait" is the final series of 60 images captured by NASA's Voyager 1 that show six of our solar system's planets. The image represents the first time a spacecraft has ...

[Diagram of the Voyager probes' locations] ... The spacecraft is hurtling toward the solar system's edge at a steady rate of about 38,000 mph (61,155 kph). Get the Space.com Newsletter.

Orbit diagram for the outer solar system. The Sun and Terrestrial planets are at the center. The Kuiper Belt (including Pluto) is shown by the dotted light blue region just beyond the giant planets.

This diagram shows the orbital distribution of extrasolar planets smaller than Jupiter that have been detected by the Kepler mission, in comparison to the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

K. Meech et al./ESO . This diagram shows the orbit of the interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua as it passes through the solar system. While all asteroids and comets observed before 'Oumuamua have been ...

But it is the diagram that he draws at the beginning of the book that captures in a simple image his revolutionary new idea: it is the Sun that is at the centre of the Solar System, not the Earth.