Copernicus placed the sun at the center of the universe. Ptolemy place the earth at the center.
Both of these view couldn't be proven at that time, but only Copernicus experienced negative backlash by the church because it's deviate from the biblical teaching. Not until year of 1600s before another intellects name Galileo created the invetions that might prove Copernicus' theory (which also being torn apart by Religious groups)