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Nicholaus Copernicus first hypothesized that the sun is the center of the universe and planets revolve around it with his heliocentric model. Kepler discovered ellipses (the orbits of of the planets with the sun at one focus).

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Galileo Galilei.

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Nicolas Copernicus

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