Earlier versions of the universe

Aristotele first proposed earth at the center and everything else spinning around. 

In 1514 a simpler model was proposed by a polish priest, Nicholas Copernicus. Sun was stationary at the center and the earth and the planets moved in circular orbits around the sun. 

A century later, Kepler and Galileo started supporting this theory.

Death of Aristotelian/Ptolemaic theory came in 1609.