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Which person is NOT credited for coming up with the Heliocentric (sun-centered) model?
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Galileo
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Aristotle
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Copernicus
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
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