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The Roman philosopher Ptolemy was the first to develop the heliocentric view of the universe.

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False! Ptolemy developed the geocentric theory. Copernicus was the first person who proposed the Heliocentric theory.
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That statement is False

The first one that first developed the heliocentric view of the Universe is an Astronomer called Aristarchus of Samos

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