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Who was the Polish astronomer who theorized the heliocentric universe?
A
Sir Isaac Newton
B
Galileo Galilei
C
Johannes Kepler
D
Nicolaus Copernicus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -This gift is a bust of the Polish Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543). Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland and was an important mathematician, Doctor of Medicine, theologian and astronomer.

Detailed explanation-4: -On February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River. The father of modern astronomy, he was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

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