GK
BASIC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Question
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Einstein
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Copernicus
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Newton
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Dalton
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. His theory took more than a century to become widely accepted.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first person known to have proposed a heliocentric system was Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BC). Like his contemporary Eratosthenes, Aristarchus calculated the size of the Earth and measured the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon.
Detailed explanation-3: -February 3, 1851: Léon Foucault demonstrates that Earth rotates.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Not only did Aryabhata believe that the earth rotates, but there are glimmerings in his system (and other similar Indian systems) of a possible underlying theory in which the earth (and the planets) orbits the sun, rather than the sun orbiting the earth."