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It was first proposed in the 3rd century BCE by Aristarchus of Samus, but it wasn't popularized until the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus expanded on the idea in his book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres in 1543. In following centuries Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei would provide scientific evidence to this fact.

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