HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Who is the Polish astronomer credited with theorizing the universe was heliocentric?
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Newton
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Galileo
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Kepler
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Copernicus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Copernicus did not have the tools to prove his theories. By the 1600s, astronomers such as Galileo would develop the physics that would prove he was correct.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1514, Copernicus distributed a handwritten book to his friends that set out his view of the universe. In it, he proposed that the center of the universe was not Earth, but that the sun lay near it.
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