GK
BIG BANG THEORY
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Copernicus
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Galileo
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Ptolemy
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Newton
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Detailed explanation-1: -An Earth-Centered View of the Universe. The Earth was the center of the Universe according to Claudius Ptolemy, whose view of the cosmos persisted for 1400 years until it was overturned-with controversy-by findings from Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, the heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.