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Who was the first scientist to challenge the geocentric theory

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Copernicus was the first to challenge Ptolemy's geocentric universe theory. In his work, De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium, published in 1543, Copernicus explained his new heliocentric, or sun centered, model.

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