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Which European was the first to suggest that the universe is heliocentric--not geocentric?

Nicolaus Copernicus

Francis Bacon

Isaac Newton

William Harvey

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Nicolaus Copernicus.

He proposed the heliocentric model in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543). (Bacon was a philosopher, Newton later provided the laws and gravitation that explained why planets orbit the Sun, and Harvey discovered blood circulation.)