Although the heliocentric model of the solar system was originally proposed by aristarchus in the 3rd century bc, the idea did not gain public support until the 16th century ad with the work of 1) galileo 2) newton 3) copernicus 4) brahe

Indeed, the heliocentric model of the solar system took quite some time to finally gain traction in the scientific community. And, in the 16th century, the main advocate of this model, and the man who eventually pushed the model fully into the mainstream of scientific thought, was 3) Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer.

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