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The heliocentric theory was first proposed by the astronomer

1. Aristotle
2. Newton
3. Ptolemy
4. Copernicus

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Nicholas Copernicus, Greek astronomer, was the one who famously proposed the heliocentric theory -- the theory by which the sun was in the center of the solar system and the planets orbited it circularly.

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