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Which European was the first to suggest that the universe is heliocentric--not geocentric?

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Polish priest named Nicolaus Copernicus

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In 1515, a Polish priest named Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that the Earth was a planet like Venus or Saturn, and that all planets circled the Sun. ... Italian scientist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for teaching, among other heretical ideas, Copernicus' heliocentric view of the Universe.

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