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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.
The idea of a sun-centered model of the solar system was proposed by the ancient Greek astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, in the 3rd century BCE. Known as heliocentrism, this concept challenged the prevailing geocentric model that placed Earth at the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans were the first to assert that mathematical harmony could be found in the universe's underlying structures. They believed that numbers and mathematical relationships were at the core of all aspects of the universe, which they called the harmony of the spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the concept of a sun-centred universe in the 16th century.
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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.