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- GREEK Aristarchus: 270 BC
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- Aristarchus of Samos put forward the theory that the
- Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours and it
- (along with the other planets) revolves around the
- sun. This heliocentric (sun-centered) view of the
- solar system was rejected by most of his
- contemporaries.
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