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What were copernicus's ideas about the universe unpopular with the accepted views of the church

What were copernicus's ideas about the universe unpopular with the accepted views of the church
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What were copernicus's ideas about the universe unpopular with the accepted views of the church

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The Catholic church strongly believed that the universe was geocentric, or that Earth was the center of the universe, but Copernicus believed that the universe was heliocentric, or sun-centered.
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