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who challenged the aristotelian model of a geocentric universe that began the scientific revolution? kepler galileo newton copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model, which placed the Sun at the center of the universe instead of the Earth as in the Aristotelian geocentric model. This was a key event that began the Scientific Revolution. Kepler, Galileo, and Newton made important contributions later in the Scientific Revolution but Copernicus was the first to challenge the geocentric view in this revolutionary way.
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