HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Whose theory stated that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the universe?
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Isaac Newton
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Ben Franklin
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Francis Bacon
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In a book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (that was published as Copernicus lay on his deathbed), Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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