HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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What theory believed that the sun was the center of the universe?
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Heliocentric
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Geocentric
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Newton
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Univeral
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -heliocentrism, a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The astronomer given the credit for presenting the first version of our modern view of the Solar System is Nicolaus Copernicus, who was an advocate for the heliocentric, or Sun-centered model of the solar system.
Detailed explanation-3: -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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