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Who was the first to model the sun as the center of our universe, or the heliocentric theory?

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Kepler


Copernicus


Ptolemy


Brahe

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The answer is Copernicus.

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  • Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
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Copernicus

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