Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

who was the first to propose and mathemetically predict that earth revolves round the sun?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus

  2. Galileo Galilei

  3. Johannes Kepler

  4. Isaac Newton
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Explanation

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to develop a comprehensive mathematical model (heliocentric model) proposing that Earth revolves around the Sun, published in his work 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' (1543). While Aristarchus of Samos had proposed the idea earlier, Copernicus was the first to provide mathematical predictions and a complete model.

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