Multiple choice

Who was the first man to suggest that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not vice-versa?

  1. Kepler

  2. Newton

  3. Copernicus

  4. Descartes

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Explanation

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to formally propose and publish the heliocentric model (Earth revolving around the Sun) in his 1543 work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Kepler and Newton later refined celestial mechanics, while Descartes contributed to philosophy and mathematics.