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Who developed the ideas that contradicted Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe

Who developed the ideas that contradicted Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe
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Who developed the ideas that contradicted Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe

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The geocentric model was challenged by the heliocentric model (which claimed that the Sun, not Earth, was at the centre of the Universe).

This model was developed by Nicoaus Copernicus, and defended fiercely by Galileo.
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